Word: nkrumah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Somehow the old eland was missing. Neither hide nor hair of him had been seen since the day that Kwame Nkrumah had been ostrichized, accused of being the biggest cheetah in Ghana, but safaris anyone knew, no fowl play was involved...
...former President, are, I am told, eating their way through his private zoo," reported a columnist in West Africa magazine last month. Full details were hard to come by, but the report set correspondents and writers to speculation about what might be going on in the cages of Kwame Nkrumah's private...
...picture of Nkrumah's statue [March 11] is a powerful commentary on the "eternal" influence of leaders. Shelley's 1817 poem "Ozymandias" describes a similar despot upon whose statue was engraved: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:/Look on my works, ye Mighty and despair!" And, as with the Ghanaian, "Nothing beside remains. Round the decay/Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare/The lone and level sands stretch far away...
...President Sekou Toure is concerned, French-speaking Guinea and English-speaking Ghana have been "one country" ever since he and Kwame Nkrumah swore their eternal togetherness in 1958. When Nkrumah was toppled from power, therefore, it seemed the honorable thing to call for 50,000 Guinea volunteers to march into Ghana and restore "the Redeemer" to his throne. Trouble was that to get there, Sekou's soldiers would have had to march 250 miles through an entirely different country, the Ivory Coast, whose President Félix Houphouet-Boigny called out his own 3,000-man army to repel...
...what of Nkrumah, the man on whose behalf the "invasion" was supposedly planned? His ex-Messianic Majesty, still the guest of Sekou Toure, has been installed in a well-guarded seaside house called "Villa Sily." He whiles away the hours indoors playing parlor games with his private secretary...