Word: nkrumah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When assassins tried to kill Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah with a bomb in the border village of Kulungugu last month, they almost got their man. Though it was officially denied that he had been hurt, Osagyefo (Redeemer) was wounded in the right shoulder, spent a week in the hospital wrestling with a high fever and an even nastier set of suspicions...
Last week Strongman Nkrumah was well enough to take his revenge. Out of office and into jail went three of Nkrumah's closest cronies: Foreign Minister Ako Adjei, Information Minister Tawia Adamafio, and Nkrumah's Party Boss H. H. Cofie-Crabbe...
...arrests seemed to contradict Nkrumah's original pronouncement that "foreign agents" had plotted his death. Nonetheless, Nkrumah's tame Ghanaian Times reported breathlessly that the "vile trio" had in one fell swoop tried to "ride the wave of the people's patience, throw dust into the eyes of the nation, trample over the leaders' forbearance, and disrupt the cause of the revolution." Thundered Nkrumah's Evening News: "The villains have been unmasked in the persons of the arch-Judas Adamafio, the lean and lanky
...songs prescribed for the children to repeat or to sing.'' This was heresy indeed in Ghana, where Osagyefo's image is everywhere-on stamps and coins, on the big statue that carries the mocking motto: "Seek ye first the political kingdom.'' The Ghanaian Times, Nkrumah's party paper, promptly-denounced Roseveare and hinted that the bishop was running an arsenal for Nkrumah's enemies. This carried special significance since the attempt on Nkrumah's life three weeks ago had focused attention on every possible opponent...
...well. Sneered the Ghanaian Times as Roseveare departed: "His presence in our dear land was not conducive to the public good. Perhaps a knighthood from his imperialist monarchs and some violent falsehoods about Ghana will compensate for the egoistic propensities of this Lucifer of a priest.'' Kwame Nkrumah likes to think of himself as the future boss of Africa. Time after time, he has tried to rally the other nations around his Pan African banner...