Word: osagyefo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country that trail-blazed black African decolonization 21 years ago has since had an unhappy political record. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's Osagyefo or Redeemer, was deposed by a 1966 military coup because his grandiose economic mismanagement had hobbled the nation with debt at the same time that the world cocoa market slumped. The next civilian government lasted only three years before Prime Minister Kofi Busia was ousted by the army. Last week General Ignatius Kutu Acheampong, 46, who took over in 1972, met a similar fate. Acheampong suddenly resigned from the army and as chairman of the ruling Supreme...
Ever since the 1966 overthrow of Ghana's President and self-styled Osagyefo (Redeemer), the late Kwame Nkrumah, his once prosperous country has borne the burden of the $1 billion in foreign debts that Nkrumah left behind. When a group of army officers under Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheam-pong seized power last year, they decided to solve the problem by repudiating a $94 million obligation to Britain (on the grounds that it had been incurred through corruption) and by declaring an indefinite moratorium on much of the remaining debt. A few months later, Acheampong proclaimed Ghanaian control over...
...birth in a mud hut, Kwame Nkrumah rose to become President of Ghana, an absolute ruler who was thought to be immortal by many of his subjects. But even at the height of his power, he lived in fear of his life, behind heavily guarded walls-calling himself Osagyefo (Redeemer). From 1966 until he died last week of cancer at age 62, in a Bucharest sanitarium where he had gone for treatment, Nkrumah had lived in exile, still regarded at home as part despot, part national hero. Above all, he was the prototypical African nationalist and the first leader...