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The personality of the highly charismatic foremost African Nationalist, Kwame Nkrumah as featured once in a while in Ghanaian fiction. For example, the celebrated Ghanaian novelist, Ayi Kwei Armah draws attention to the corrupt nature of the Nkrumah regime in his famous novel, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born. But this is by far the very first time that Kwame Nkrumah and his era have been made the main subject of a full-length novel.

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Publié par	Langaa RPCIG
Date de parution	01 mai 2010
Nombre de lectures	3
EAN13	9789956716036
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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DISCLAIMER All views expressed in this publication are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Langaa RPCIG.

Contents

Acknowledgement ...................................................................... vii Foreword ..................................................................................... ix

Chapter One ............................................................................. 1 Chapter Two ............................................................................. 9 Chapter Three ....................................................................... 15 Chapter Four .......................................................................... 25 Chapter Five .......................................................................... 39 Chapter Six ............................................................................ 43 Chapter Seven ....................................................................... 49 Chapter Eight ........................................................................ 53 Chapter Nine ......................................................................... 59 Chapter Ten ........................................................................... 71 Chapter Eleven ..................................................................... 77 Chapter Twelve ..................................................................... 85 Chapter Thirteen ................................................................... 91 Chapter Fourteen .................................................................. 97 Chapter Fifteen ................................................................... 105 Chapter Sixteen ................................................................... 111 Chapter Seventeen ............................................................. 119 Chapter Eighteen ................................................................ 129 Chapter Nineteen ............................................................... 131 Chapter Twenty ................................................................... 135 Epilogue ............................................................................... 147

Acknowledgement

In coming up with this highly dramatic and fictionalized version of Kwame Nkrumah’s very rich life, I owe a huge debt of gratitude to:

1. June Milne whose well documented bookKWAME NKRUMAH: A BIOGRAPHY (PANAF BOOKS, 1999, 75 Weston Street, London, SE1 3RS), I milked for anything that I found necessary for my purpose.

2. T. Peter Omari from whose bookKWAME NKRUMAH: THE ANATOMY OF AN AFRICAN DICTATORSHIP(Moxon Paperbacks, Accra, 1970) I borrowed much of the material that constituted the dialogue sections.

3AFRICAN. NEW magazine, especially Numbers 460 of March 2007, from which I gleaned information on the subject of betrayals along with the story of Nkrumah’s visit to Lincoln and the invitation he made to Africans of the Diaspora.

4AFRICA. WEST , Number 4139 of 3-9 March 1997, from which I first got the story of Yaasei, Kotoka’s so-called teacher in my book.

5FOCUS ON AFRICA. BBC MAGAZINE of January – March 2007, from which I got more reliable information surrounding Nkrumah’s marriage to Fathia Rizk, from Nkrumah’s son himself, Gamel.

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