In an atmosphere of street fights and charges of fraud, nearly half of Ghana's 5,500,000 people last week swarmed to the polls. Their object: 1) to vote for or against a new constitution which would change Ghana from a dominion to a republic; 2) to elect as President either Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, 50, or his white-thatched rival, Dr. Joseph Danquah, 64, the present leader of the opposition United Party.
Dr. Danquah, the recognized elder statesman of Ghana politics, was campaigning for independence when Nkrumah was still an unknown student studying at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania....
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