By Angelina K. Morrison and Naana Ekua Eyaaba
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| Ghana |
36.
In Accra, there were rumours of the Ghana Army being sent to Rhodesia, to fight
on the side of black liberation movements that had sprung up in that country.
37.
Remembering the disaster of the Congolese operation, a section of the Ghana
Army led by Colonel E. K. Kotoka and Major A. A. Afrifa of the Second Battalion
in Kumasi, struck at dawn on 24th February 1966, following the President’s
departure to China on the 22nd, on his way to Vietnam, to mediate between that
country and America at the searing height of the Vietnam War.
38.
Millions of Ghanaians from all walks of life jubilated from dawn to dusk,
throughout the country over several weeks, and even months, in some areas.
39.
Nkrumah’s ministers, friends, party honchos and even relations to the man,
denounced him in sometimes unprintable terms with vigorous assaults and
venomous maledictions.
40.
That first coup d'état opened the floodgates to military adventurism and
political instability and anarchy for the next twenty-six years.
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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