Nearly six months ago, when U.S.-educated (Pennsylvania's Lincoln University) Kwame Nkrumah joyously proclaimed "Ghana is free," 50,000 of his Gold Coast countrymen cheered him to the skies. Last week, pulling up to Accra's National Assembly building in a new Rolls-Royce, flanked by jeep outriders, golden-tongued Premier Nkrumah jovially waved a handkerchief to the surrounding crowd and waited for the customary applause. What he got instead was a thunderous hooting—the beginning of two days of rioting in Accra, which brought 100 arrests.
Long before Britain set Ghana free, the proud, separatist-minded Ashanti tribesmen who make up about 20% of Ghana's population...
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