Volume 9, Number 6 · October 12, 1967
Letter from Ghana
By Name Withheld
Deep down, the Ghanaian reaction to the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah and his parti unique, the Convention People's Party, was an ageless, cynical coolness. There were no barricades erected by the party faithful, and the masses nowhere rose to defend their Osagyefo. On the contrary, the most prudent went out as soon as they were sure the government had really changed, to proclaim, in the exact words taught them by Nkrumah and his party bureaucrats, their 'unflinching support' for the new men of power, even though most did not know for certain who exactly these new men were, or what exactly they stood for.
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