Word: nkrumah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since it tossed out the man who styled himself its "redeemer," Ghana has been trying to redeem itself from his mistakes. Far from wanting to forget Kwame Nkrumah, the National Liberation Council that overthrew him in 1966 has endlessly reminded the 8,000,000 Ghanaians about his aberrant schemes. It even holds lectures on "What Went Wrong in Ghana?", at which the audience invariably utters cries of disbelief. The ruling junta of police and army officers, headed by Lieut. General Joseph Ankrah, has done a great deal more than lecture, however. It has not only rescued Ghana from...
Curle advised the government of Pakistan on social development from 1956 to 1959, and then headed the Education Department of the University of Ghana from 1959 to 1961. Breaking with Nkrumah over the arbitrary dismissal of some colleagues, he came to Harvard in 1961 to co-found the Center for Studies in Education and Development. As the Center's director, he has helped nurture educational experiments in seven underdeveloped countries from Venezuela to Nigeria...
After tossing out Nkrumah, they made an impressive start at Dekwamification by re-establishing an independent judiciary, granting a degree of freedom to the long-muzzled press, freeing political prisoners and rooting out corrupt officials. They spared the country a bloodbath by singling out only the most culpable of Nkrumah's followers for punishment. Said General Joseph Ankrah, 51, the N.L.C.'s leader: "I did not depose Nkrumah to institute another reign of terror. We can be tough, but we are civilized...
Fears & Alarms. In recent weeks, the fear of Nkrumah-planned subversion has forced Ankrah to become increasingly tough. His men have uncovered two separate shipments of explosives and hand grenades being smuggled into Ghana to be used, so police say, to sabotage the big International Trade Fair, now under way in Accra. The country is full of rumors about assassination plots against the military rulers. Two army officers and two other men have been arrested on the charge of plotting a countercoup. Cracking down, the military regime has enacted an antisubversion law that is reminiscent of Nkrumah...
Ankrah feels understandably edgy. He has taken some unpopular steps in an attempt to rescue the nearly bankrupt economy left behind by Nkrumah. He has, for example, shut down work on many grandiose and unrealistic construction projects that Nkrumah had scattered throughout the country. One result is that 50,000 people have been thrown out of work. Ankrah fears that many of them might be glad to see Nkrumah return, if only to get their jobs back. The most immediate threat from Nkrumah is not armed subversion but the ability to stir up in Ghana a state of nervousness...