Word: osagyefo
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...opposition M.P.s presently in jail can testify, it is not healthy to lambaste Ghana's government or its leader, Osagyefo (the Redeemer) Kwame Nkrumah. Hence the public astonishment last week when two of Osagyefo's own Cabinet ministers took the floor in Parliament itself to rake the great man over the coals...
...speech at the U.N., in which he urged an all-African command for the Congo force and insisted that all foreign diplomats get out. Then President John F. Kennedy greeted him warmly at the White House, took him in to meet the family. Finally Ghana's beaming Osagyefo (Redeemer) sat down in London with all the other British Commonwealth leaders to soberly deliberate on South Africa's fate, and had a weekend at Chequers with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. All in all, not a bad fortnight for Nkrumah, whose country may be small (6,700,000) but whose...
Unofficial Funds. Last week B.A.A.'s officials were hurling invective at Rhodesian Federation Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky and pumping anti-white leaflets into apartheid-minded South Africa. But other agents were whittling away at the black regimes of the neighboring Ivory Coast and Togo, both of which Osagyefo (pronounced Oh-sah-jee-foe) would dearly love to annex. B.A.A.'s men were also active in the Congo, where Nkrumah sent top B.A.A. Agent Nathaniel Welbeck to guide Patrice Lumumba and advance his plan to bring the 14 million Congolese into Greater Ghana's political league. When...
...leftists, who struggle constantly to oust Cabinet moderates like seasoned Finance Minister Komla Gbedemah, derive most of their power from positions in the ruling Convention People's Party, which Founder Nkrumah has neglected as his official presidential duties increased. Sensing a squeeze, Osagyefo this month announced that he personally, was taking over the party's top job. Now he could plunge ahead with the main goal: "I see before my mind's eye," he declared resoundingly, "a great monolithic party . . . united and strong, spreading its protective wings over the whole of Africa from Algiers in the north...
...this gallant paper," implored the News. "To forget it is to betray yourself and Africa. Read the valiant Evening News and keep yourself in perfect tune with the spirit of militant fighting Africa." But there was no evidence that anyone was listening-least of all the Osagyefo...