Word: osagyefo
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...quite a myth while it lasted. In his 15 years as Ghana's Prime Minister, Founding Father, President, Commander in Chief and Osagyefo (Redeemer), Francis Nwia Kofie Kwame Nkrumah, son of a village goldsmith, had striven with some success to make himself all but synonymous with God. His face appeared on Ghanaian stamps and coins, statues of him littered the country, and his name flashed in neon in Accra. Ghanaian schoolchildren began each day by reciting that "Nkrumah is our Messiah, Nkrumah never dies." Among his official titles were Victorious Leader, the Great Messiah, His Messianic Majesty, the Pacifier...
Waiter, peddler, porter, steward. Teacher, preacher, author, prude. Kwame Nkrumah has been them all in his long career, but you can't keep a good man down. Two years ago, as a letter or two of praise poured in for his latest published theories on African socialism, the Osagyefo (Redeemer) made himself permanent boss of his country. Apparently he found that he was not busy enough, for last week, at 55, Nkrumah began yet another career. Hearing rumors that two generals were gossiping about him, he decided that his army needed new leadership, began casting around...
Bequeathed by the British, Ghana's judicial system displays all the solemn trappings of the Old Bailey, complete with decorous courtrooms and gowned-and-wigged judges. Far higher than the law of the land is Osagyefo (Redeemer) and President Kwame Nkrumah...
...that in the photograph of Kwame Nkrumah he is holding aloft an egg. This is one of his favorite symbols, "the egg of power." If one holds it too lightly, it will drop and smash; if one holds it too hard, it will break in one's hand. Osagyefo, of course, says that he knows exactly how to hold...
...under the baobab tree, but had to accept the tribe's (or chief's) decision once rendered. And indeed a certain amount of discussion filters up from the ranks to the top in parties like TANU, even in Nkrumah's monolithic Convention People's Party. Osagyefo recently told a visitor that he not only listened intently to the dissenting opinions of Ghana's "market mammies" but accepted them with alacrity: after all, the mammies control much of the nation's retail trade, hence hold much of its cash. The situation is familiar...