Word: nkrumah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Britain's Queen Elizabeth II had never made her royal visit to Ghana. Scarcely a week after her departure, all signs that Kwame Nkrumah would seek closer relations with the British Commonwealth and ease the repressive measures against his opponents had vanished. Still in jail, with little hope of release, were more than 1,000 Ghanaians rounded up during the visit, ostensibly for the Queen's security. Decorations praising the Queen were quickly struck, and newspapers abruptly dropped any mention of the tour...
Both impressed and appalled by the wild acclaim that Ghana's people gave the Queen, Nkrumah and his advisers were toning down a violently anti-British White Paper that accused British interests of fomenting and financing rebellion against the Ghanaian government. But criticism of the "foreign press conspiracy" reached fever pitch. Ousted from Ghana for "false, tendentious and obnoxious" reports were two British journalists.* Their crime: stating the obvious fact that Ghana is drifting toward an oppressive, Red-lining dictatorship...
Censored Scholarship. As long as the Volta River loan still hung in the balance. Osagyefo (The Redeemer) is willing to court the favor of the U.S. Opening the U.S. Trade Fair in Accra last week. Nkrumah ogled an array of exhibits from tractors to a U.S. Negro bathing beauty, made a great show of comparing Ghana's present stage of development with that of the early American colonies. Actively playing the neutrality game, however, he asserted that "capital and technical knowledge have no respect for political frontiers," and insisted that he had no reason to apologize for "the steps...
Sleeping Upright. The incident was the crowning embarrassment to Nkrumah in a swing through central and northern Ghana that put His High Dedication in a state of high dudgeon. Tribal traditions are still strong in the north, and feeling runs deep against Nkrumah for breaking the power of the chiefs...
...Queen's tour gave Nkrumah a continued excuse to crack down on his opponents in the United Party. There is a growing feeling that Osagyefo's own Convention People's Party planned the outburst of bombings around Nkrumah's statue in Accra on the eve of the royal visit in order to justify the crackdown on the opposition. The reasoning is that United Party agents would have done the job completely and blasted the statue to smithereens, which would have been an ill omen in fetish-conscious Ghana; the fact that the statue was only damaged...