Word: nkrumah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also had much to say about Ghana. George Lichtheim recently criticized O'Brien in the letters column of the New York Review of Books for not taking enough of a stand against Nkrumah. But if there was ever any foundation to this criticism, it became awfully weak after O'Brien's remarks last week...
Asked what kind of government might emerge when Nkrumah passed from the scene, O'Brien replied "it depends on the manner of his passing." The tone in which he spoke didn't imply any inclination to see Nkrumah live a long and prosperous life. "Quite a lot of people in Ghana," he remarked, "feel that more piped water and fewer palaces would be quite in order...
...Harvard students from Ghana predicted last night that Ghana's ousted president Kwame Nkrumah will return to power within a year...
...third stage was marked by an increased demand for some kind of partnership with the colonial powers by the native intelligentsia. Local leaders joined with the feudal elite and the growing middle class in an effort to demonstrate their collective power. The United Gold Coast Convention was formed, but Nkrumah soon split away from the UGCC to form a mass movement called the Convention People's Party...
...Abubakar himself was widely respected as a man who sought to bring the feuding regions together. He was also one of the continent's leading moderate statesmen, opposed equally to colonialism and to Kwame Nkrumah's brash brand of African nationalism. But many of the men in his government, especially the northerners, ran roughshod. The government was widely suspected of tampering with the 1963 census figures to ensure northern control in the federal parliament. In 1962, it jailed Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the anti-north Premier of the Western Region, and installed its own man, Chief Akintola...