GHANA: Who's Who

At first his people called him "Show-boy." Then he became his government's Prime Minister. This year he became his Queen's Privy Councilor. His local admirers now also refer to him as First Citizen of the African Continent. But when it comes to titles, there seems to be no stopping Kwame Nkrumah, 50. Last week the Accra Evening News, one of the Prime Minister's more effusive admirers (it manages to run one or more pictures of him almost every day), announced that next March the people of Ghana would get a chance to decide two questions: 1) whether their country...

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