By Angelina K. Morrison and Naana Ekua Eyaaba
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| Ghana |
31.
On the wider world stage, Ghana’s shrill rhetoric at fora like the United
Nations, Non-Aligned Movement and OAU did not escape the attention of the
Americans and their other western allies.
32.
Clandestine plans were being crafted towards the military overthrow of the
Nkrumah government.
33.
The Ghana Army had been used in a disastrous effort to shore up the government
of the young Congolese Prime Minister, Patrice Lumumba in 1960-61.
34.
Back in Ghana, the two top army officers, the Chief of Defence Staff and his
deputy, Major-Generals J. A. Ankrah and S. J. A. Otu, were dismissed from the
army, along with Police Commissioner E. R. T. Madjitey.
35.
Meanwhile, in then Rhodesia, Ian Smith had declared unilateral independence
from Britain, under a racist constitution that prevented the majority Black
people, from participating in the affairs of their country.
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.
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