Word: nkrumah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During his six years as Ghana's boss, President Kwame Nkrumah has dealt with his opposition in a variety of ways -intimidation, jail, exile. Last week he went a step further. In a packed courtroom in Accra, where mine detectors were used to check spectators for weapons, an Nkrumah-created tribunal passed out death sentences to five enemies of the regime...
...treason in connection with half a dozen explosions that killed 35 persons and injured 300. The bombing began last August, when the blast of a hand grenade wounded Osagyefo in the shoulder as he drove by in his Russian-made Chaika limousine near the northern border village of Kulungugu. Nkrumah's cops have been rounding up suspects ever since...
...Spain's Francisco Franco is the only other dictator with legal life tenure as chief of state. Ghana's strongman President, Kwame Nkrumah, was voted permanently into office in September, but His High Dedication modestly vetoed the gesture, preferring to rely on elections-a safe enough gesture since the country is officially a one-party state...
Suspicion immediately focused on Ghana's Strongman Kwame Nkrumah, who has conducted a bitter feud with Olympio over control of the powerful, 700,000-member Ewe (pronounced Evvy) tribe, which was split between both countries by European boundary-setters. Twice before, assassins had tried to kill Olympio; each time Ghana's agents were accused. But this time it was Olympio's own zealous economies that brought disaster...
...months ago, Nkrumah relented, readmitted Roseveare to Ghana. But last week the bishop was in trouble again. In a New Year's Eve sermon, Roseveare delivered a carefully worded attack on "idolatry." He named no names, did not so much as mention Ghana, but Nkrumah's terrible-tempered press was quick to take offense. Adding a new phrase to the already rich vocabulary of invective, the Accra Evening News branded the bishop as a "vicious insinuationist," warned that unless he stops his "utter misuse of the pulpit, we shall have no alternative than to accept the gauntlet"-that...