Ghana's Story in 58 Lines - (26-30)

By Angelina K. Morrison and Naana Ekua Eyaaba

Ghana

26. With an increasingly socialist outlook, more fields, farming (Young Farmers’ League and Workers’ Brigade), trading, construction (State Construction Corporation), were centralised.

27. In football, an elite model football team, Real Republicans (Osagyefo’s Own Club or OOC), was created with a selection of the players of Accra Hearts of Oak, Kumasi Asante Kotoko and Accra Great Olympics, soon to be followed by Independence in Sekondi and Great Ashantis in Kumasi; a programme that would spell the downward spiral of Ghana football, from which it is yet to fully recover.

28. In the meantime, on the political scene, families and individuals were using the PDA to settle personal scores and fisticuffs.

29. At the international level, Kwame Nkrumah led the fight for the total emancipation of the African continent, with the first All Africa Conference in Accra in 1959, followed by the formative meeting of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in Addis Ababa in 1963.

30. Ghana was also at the forefront of the formation of the Non-Aligned Movement with countries like Egypt, India, Algeria, Malaysia and Burma, among a few others.

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Author 1: Angelina K. Morrison is interested in national development, true religion, and self-improvement. She enjoys thinking, and writes stories only when the muse grips her. Her first short story, Gravellatina is a breathtaking five-part series available now at Amazon. You can email her at angelinakm75@gmail.com, or find her at www.angelinakmorrison.blogspot.com or Facebook page.

Author 2: Nana Ekua Eyaaba has an overarching interest in the development of the African continent and Black issues in general. Having travelled extensively through Africa, the Black communities of the East Coast of the United States as well as London and Leeds (United Kingdom), she enjoys reading, and writes when she is irritated, and edits when she is calm. You can email her at neeyaaba@gmail.com.