Word: osagyefo
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...Eggs. Osagyefo, the Redeemer, was in his worst jam since Ghana became independent in 1957. Over the past two months, 15 Ghanaians have been killed, more than 250 injured in a series of explosions, and terrorists have scrawled the words NKRUMAH ABDICATE OR MORE BOMBS on buildings in Accra. Nkrumah himself, while touring a border village in August, caught a shoulderful of shrapnel...
...controlled press demanded DEATH TO THE TRAITORS. The Evening News even printed their pictures upside down, an omen of doom in West Africa, and Nkrumah's supporters burned effigies of the three in coffins. From all over Ghana came tribesmen who sought to exorcise the evil spirits plaguing Osagyefo by offering him concoctions of yams and eggs, sprinkling sheep's blood on his feet, and presenting him with gifts of jewels and leopard skins...
...Osagyefo (The Redeemer) had decreed austerely that no Minister in his socialist government should have a house worth more than $56,000. Crowbar, a former $22-a-month debt collector, had five houses; one of them-a $200,000 pleasure dome outside of Accra-would be called a palace even by Osagyefo. However, it was not Chateau Crowbar that led to Edusei's downfall, but a golden bed that was snapped up by his wife Mary in London. In vain Crowbar pleaded with her to send it back to the store. Implored Edusei: "An $8,400 gold-plated...
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...
With a touch of bravado, the Ghanaian Times invoked on Kwame Nkrumah's behalf the classic plaint: "Save me from my friends; mine enemies I can take care of." This was putting Nkrumah's plight too simply. From the way things were going in Accra, Osagyefo could no longer tell which was which...