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Would His High Dedication, Kwame Nkrumah, toast Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth? This question of protocol stirred official Accra last week on the eve of the Queen's eleven-day visit. Truculently anti-British, Nkrumah's advisers have claimed that if Osagyefo (the Redeemer) were to lift his glass to the Queen, he would compromise his standing as the only ruler of Ghana. Already the word has gone out to the Ghanaian press to stop referring to the British sovereign as "the Queen," which implies her sovereignty over Ghana, but to call her "Queen Elizabeth II," which classifies...
...High Dedication is the latest title given Kwame Nkrumah by his admirers, who once were content with Osagyefo, or Redeemer. By whatever title, Nkrumah is in bad trouble, and so is his country. Ghana, a little land once rich with promise, is slipping fast toward financial failure and harsh dictatorship. Thanks to Nkrumah's reckless spending, hard currency reserves are half what they were four years ago. And thanks to the pressure of left-wing extremists around him, Nkrumah is inching closer to the brink of Communist control of the country he led to independence...
...debt collector for a newspaper; now he earns nearly $1,400. "When I receive my salary am I expected to throw it into the sea?" he demanded. "I must not build a house, or buy a car, or enjoy the fruits of my labor? If that is so, the Osagyefo must explain again what he means by socialism!" As the legislators gaped, Edusei's voice rose: "These people who are talking about socialism must go to the ideological school and study it!" he cried. "We are not small boys for anyone to shout unnecessary slogans...
Minister of Social Welfare Patrick Quaidoo was so aroused that he even dared to attack the elaborate myths which Osagyefo's propagandists have woven around the boss. "People are stupidly engaging in flattery," he sneered. "They say the leader is immortal and will never die. This is rank stupidity or sycophantic adulation. You can never have a President who is infallible . . . The methods being used are exactly the methods which the Nazis and Fascists used...
...ministry or "get out," rumbled the Evening News darkly. As for Quaidoo, added the Ghanaian Times, "he is a Tshombe-faced nincompoop who stands out as one of the biggest buffoons who ever walked the floor of free Ghana's Parliament." Clearly, both had fallen from grace with Osagyefo. The next question was where else they might fall...