Many Ghanaians remain nostalgic for the socialist principles of the independence leader Kwame Nkrumah and believe that over two decades the World Bank has imposed too much liberalisation not too little...
Should it merely cover the years of the Provisional National Defence Council and its successor the National Democratic Congress regime under Rawlings or should it date back to the first military coup in 1966 or even back to the Independence government of Kwame Nkrumah...
Kufuor has also authorised the return of a house allocated to the family of first President Kwame Nkrumah confiscated by the Rawlings regime and of the property of former Prime Minister Kofi Busia confiscated by Acheampong's regime in the 1970s...
His father was a minister in Kwame Nkrumah's presidential campaign who died in preventive detention...
Vol 42 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
Four decades earlier Ghana's Independence leader Kwame Nkrumah bet his Ivorian counterpart Félix Houphouët-Boigny that his political strategy would prevail...
For 50 years Ghanaian political allegiance has been built around two nationalist heroes: the socialist and first President Kwame Nkrumah and the conservative J...
The seven parties and candidates are: Vice-President John Fifi Atta Mills (NDC); studied at Kwame Nkrumah's Ideological Institute in Winneba...
Its leaders have been slow to develop its role as a leading opposition party (following the NDC's manipulation of Nkrumaist sentiment which is now split between the ruling party itself and three small parties claiming Kwame Nkrumah's mantle)...
A mile down the road at Kwame Nkrumah Circle the writ of Warrant Officer Salifu Amankwa leader of the Accra Task Force holds sway...
Vol 38 No 17 |
- NIGERIA
- AFRICA
Fela's mother (who had been active in the anti-colonial struggle and introduced Fela to Kwame Nkrumah) later died from her injuries and when Gen...
Vol 38 No 15 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Deputy President Thabo Mbeki speaks animatedly of an 'African Renaissance' – an updated version of Kwame Nkrumah's Pan-Africanism but with South Africa rather than Ghana steering the way...