Word: twi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah was born at the jungle's edge in the mud-hut village of Nkroful, where his father, a Twi (pronounced Twee) tribesman, hammered out gold ornaments for local woodcutters. A Catholic mission taught him the three Rs, and the Fathers sent him up to the Gold Coast's Achimota College. Achi-mota crackles with black & white brains (its crest is a piano keyboard, with black & white keys playing together in harmony). Nkrumah graduated (in 1931) with an itch to teach...
Boston Braves--Struggling toward the first division, entertain the Cincinnati Reds in a twi-night doubleheader tomorrow and night games Wednesday and Thursday...