The coup that set Ghana and Africa 50 years back
AFRICAN NEWS The coup that set Ghana and Africa 50 years back 9 March 2016 at 01:45 | {Courtesey: The Patritic Vanguard- Canada} By Charles Quist-Adade, Vancouver, Canada. Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah (pictured) wanted to industrialize Ghana within a generation and everything was on course until the Americans and their British cousins used some disgruntled and self-serving Ghanaian soldiers to stage that terrible coup on 24 February 1966. It was a major setback, not only for Ghana but the whole of Africa! A few days after the overthrow of the Convention People’s Party government of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s pioneer president in a bloody coup d’état on February 24, 1966, our primary school teachers hurriedly organized a crash course on public demonstrations for us. We were taught a song, which has etched itself indelibly on my mind till now. The lyrics of the song roughly translate as: “Kotoka, drive him away; Nkrumah is coming!” We were then sent on a march through the main street