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Last week Strongman Nkrumah was well enough to take his revenge. Out of office and into jail went three of Nkrumah's closest cronies: Foreign Minister Ako Adjei, Information Minister Tawia Adamafio, and Nkrumah's Party Boss H. H. Cofie-Crabbe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghana: Who Will Save the Redeemer? | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

...from among the most politically educated section of party leadership [to] become educators of broad masses, especially of our illiterate comrades," Nkrumah has called them), the audience shouted Nkrumah's slogans, and Ghana "market mammies" performed tribal dances. A pile of copies of TIME was set ablaze, and Tawia Adamafio, the new secretary-general of the party, cried, "TIME is a dirty, filthy paper, bankrupt mentally, fit to be kept in the toilet or pushed into the limbo of degradation." Adamafio warned: "If this happens again, we shall hold demonstrations, and we know the embassy to which we shall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GHANA: A Consuming Fire | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

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