Word: nkrumah
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...First colonized (and named) by Germany 76 years ago, Togoland after World War II was split into British and French mandates without regard to tribal boundaries. In 1957 the British portion was folded into Ghana, whose ambitious Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah openly covets the French part he did not get. As late as 1958, France was still stubbornly rejecting any talk of Togo independence. Then under prodding from Togo's able pro-Western nationalist, Sylvanus Olympic, 57, the U.N. ordered an election in which Olympio's Committee for Togolese Unity swept two-thirds of the seats, and thereupon...
...charges of fraud, nearly half of Ghana's 5,500,000 people last week swarmed to the polls. Their object: 1) to vote for or against a new constitution which would change Ghana from a dominion to a republic; 2) to elect as President either Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, 50, or his white-thatched rival, Dr. Joseph Danquah, 64, the present leader of the opposition United Party...
...Danquah, the recognized elder statesman of Ghana politics, was campaigning for independence when Nkrumah was still an unknown student studying at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. Danquah, a lawyer trained at London's Inner Temple and a sociologist with several books to his credit, brought Kwame Nkrumah back to Ghana to become organizing secretary of the nationalist movement. Nkrumah promptly displaced Danquah as the nationalist leader and, over the years, has nearly decimated the United Party, whose seats in Parliament have dwindled from 32 to 13 through the imprisonment of some legislators and the expedient switch in allegiance of others...
...election was expected to be a walkover for Nkrumah. But the first returns showed that in some areas, Ghanaians were beginning to have qualms about their self-appointed "messiah." In the capital city of Accra, two of the city's wards rejected the proposed constitution and favored Danquah over Nkrumah. Even in his home constituency, Nkrumah got only 7,000 votes compared with his 1956 total...
...black man with a name newly famous but hard to pronounce does not show up at New York's Idlewild Airport in a neat black suit. In the past two years the list has included Guinea's Sékou Touré, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, Ivory Coast's Félix Houphouet-Boigny, Nigeria's Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Kenya's Tom Mboya, Nyasaland's Kanyama Chiume, Southern Rhodesia's Joshua Nkomo, and most recently Tanganyika's Julius Nyerere...