During his six years as Ghana's boss, President Kwame Nkrumah has dealt with his opposition in a variety of ways —intimidation, jail, exile. Last week he went a step further. In a packed courtroom in Accra, where mine detectors were used to check spectators for weapons, an Nkrumah-created tribunal passed out death sentences to five enemies of the regime.
The five men, four Ghanaians and a Nigerian, were charged with treason in connection with half a dozen explosions that killed 35 persons and injured 300. The bombing began last August, when the blast of a hand grenade wounded Osagyefo in...
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