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When assassins tried to kill Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah with a bomb in the border village of Kulungugu last month, they almost got their man. Though it was officially denied that he had been hurt, Osagyefo (Redeemer) was wounded in the right shoulder, spent a week in the hospital wrestling with a high fever and an even nastier set of suspicions...
...Nkrumah will make you fishers...
These lines are from an official anthem of Ghana's youth movement, the 500,000-strong Young Pioneers, who are the pride of President Kwame Nkrumah. Though all Ghanaians are now accustomed to adulation of Ghana's Osagyefo (Redeemer), the indoctrination of small children with such a parody of Christian teaching (Matthew 4:19) was too much for the Right Rev. Richard Roseveare, 60, Anglican Bishop of Accra. Fortnight ago, the bishop rose before a Christian gathering in Cape Coast to declare solemnly. "It is a truism to say that the future will be in the hands...
...songs prescribed for the children to repeat or to sing.'' This was heresy indeed in Ghana, where Osagyefo's image is everywhere-on stamps and coins, on the big statue that carries the mocking motto: "Seek ye first the political kingdom.'' The Ghanaian Times, Nkrumah's party paper, promptly-denounced Roseveare and hinted that the bishop was running an arsenal for Nkrumah's enemies. This carried special significance since the attempt on Nkrumah's life three weeks ago had focused attention on every possible opponent...
...well. Sneered the Ghanaian Times as Roseveare departed: "His presence in our dear land was not conducive to the public good. Perhaps a knighthood from his imperialist monarchs and some violent falsehoods about Ghana will compensate for the egoistic propensities of this Lucifer of a priest.'' Kwame Nkrumah likes to think of himself as the future boss of Africa. Time after time, he has tried to rally the other nations around his Pan African banner...