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...expected, Ghana voted overwhelmingly to convert to a one-party "socialist" state. Also as expected, the final returns were no sooner in last week than Dictator Kwame Nkrumah embarked on a fresh purge of his opposition and a stepped-up campaign against...
...Nkrumah's steamroller tactics to assure a yes vote for his constitutional referendum stood out as a landmark of sorts in African electoral history. Technically, citizens could vote yes or no on whether to make Nkrumah's Convention Peoples Party the nation's only legal party. But in hundreds of places the "no" boxes were sealed up or nonexistent. All the ballots carried the voter's registration number, which would make it easy to see who voted no. In Accra's Ward 22, the registration was 1,834, yet the official count showed...
...radio speech afterward, Nkrumah vowed that the "evil men and neocolonialist agents amongst us shall be smoked out." Two days later a mob shouting "Ghana yes, Yankee no!" descended on the American embassy in Accra, hauled down the Stars and Stripes. A plucky Negro attache, Emerson Player, 31, of Denver, fought his way through the crowd, ran the flag up again. The government denied that it had anything to do with the incident and expressed "regret," but the assault was obviously officially engineered. The mob was led by a C.P.P. sound truck, and the local Tass correspondent arrived 25 minutes...
Then began a move on the universities, whose students have protested Nkrumah's high-handed tactics. The regime ordered the expulsion of six University of Ghana faculty members, four of them Americans, after 2,000 demonstrators stormed the university shouting "Down with bookism!" The Americans were accused of "activities prejudicial to the security of the state." One of them, Negro Professor Louis Schuster, 56, was ordered to leave Ghana on three hours' notice. "We were just pawns in a chess game," he declared. "It was an organized campaign against the United States...
...sizable herd of Osagyefo-worshippers who received fresh inspiration from the Ghanaian Times writer who recently confessed: "I shudder when I think of the greatness of the Great One. And so let the world know, and the word go forth, that indeed we do have a miracle called Kwame Nkrumah who walks the face of Africa today...