Word: nkrumah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much as any African leader, Kwame Nkrumah relished the plush life that power can buy. The self-styled redeemer of Ghana nearly bankrupted his country by building palatial hotels, modernistic palaces and a cozy hideaway for his favorite mistress. Even after he was overthrown last February, it seemed likely that Nkrumah would continue to wield power and enjoy life as few exiles ever had. Guinea's President Sekou Touré gave Nkrumah a hero's welcome and startled the world by proclaiming that the visitor was coPresident. Said Touré: "Nkrumah belongs to all Africa, not just Ghana...
...TIME'S senior editors are dedicated to stamping out all puns except their own -which, of course, are far superior to those thought up by the troops. Imagine how proud World Writers John Blashill, Robert Jones and Jason McManus felt last April when their story on Kwame Nkrumah's zoo, titled Fangs a Lot, made the magazine -74 glorious lines of puns about what happened "since the day Nkrumah was ostrichized." The day after the story appeared, some of us had second thoughts; but to make matters worse, TIME readers respunded in kine: "Next time some anteloper...
...Beavogui, three aides and 15 "students" bound for a conference of African foreign ministers in Ethiopia. Apparently they were not aware that an interim stop would put them down briefly at Accra, capital of Ghana. Otherwise, they might have traveled another route. After all, since last February, when Kwame Nkrumah was ousted by a military coup and took refuge in Guinea, the two nations have been the bitterest of enemies...
Finally, Sekou Toure reluctantly released Ambassador Mcllvaine and offered to pay the air fare from Conakry to Accra of any Ghanaian who wanted to be repatriated. Toure knew well enough that few would take the offer: most of the Ghanaians in Conakry are members of Nkrumah's personal entourage who, in Accra, would face jail, a trial, and perhaps a firing squad. At week's end, Ghana's strongman, Lieut. General Joseph Ankrah flew off-via a Ghana Airways jet-to Addis Ababa to talk the whole thing over. After huddling with Emperor Haile Selassie, Liberia...
Only a decade ago at Bandung, 29 nonaligned leaders gathered for ten days to prescribe a cure for the cold war's ills. Since then, many of the non-aligned world's leaders have fallen: India's Nehru is dead; Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, Algeria's Ahmed ben Bella and Indonesia's Sukarno have dropped from supreme power. Indeed, nonalignment itself badly needs redefinition: the former nonaligneds have hardly anyone left to nonalign with...