Word: nkrumah
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...Kwame Nkrumah, who dreams of controlling all of black Africa, last week was scarcely able to control his own capital...
...Eggs. Osagyefo, the Redeemer, was in his worst jam since Ghana became independent in 1957. Over the past two months, 15 Ghanaians have been killed, more than 250 injured in a series of explosions, and terrorists have scrawled the words NKRUMAH ABDICATE OR MORE BOMBS on buildings in Accra. Nkrumah himself, while touring a border village in August, caught a shoulderful of shrapnel...
...aides: Information Minister Tawia Ada-mafio, Foreign Minister Ako Adjei, Convention People's Party Chief H. H. Cofie-Crabbe. In fat headlines, his controlled press demanded DEATH TO THE TRAITORS. The Evening News even printed their pictures upside down, an omen of doom in West Africa, and Nkrumah's supporters burned effigies of the three in coffins. From all over Ghana came tribesmen who sought to exorcise the evil spirits plaguing Osagyefo by offering him concoctions of yams and eggs, sprinkling sheep's blood on his feet, and presenting him with gifts of jewels and leopard skins...
...evil spirits refused to do a fadeout. The last straw for Nkrumah was the bombing fortnight ago of a torchlight parade that was celebrating an event close to his heart-his own 53rd birthday. Osagyefo was nowhere near the blasts, but they jolted him into declaring a state of emergency "to rid Accra, and indeed Ghana, of such acts of savagery." Troops with tommy guns and light tanks guarded the approaches to Flagstaff House where Nkrumah, afraid to appear in public, has made himself a virtual prisoner...
Since jailing Foreign Minister Ako Adjei and Information Minister Tawia Adama-fio last month, apparently for complicity in a plot to assassinate him, Nkrumah has been hard pressed to plug the gaps. To fill the Agriculture Ministry, the Redeemer redeemed Crowbar...