Kwame Nkrumah. Vision and Tragedy

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366 KWAME NKRUMAH - VISION AND TRAGEDY NOTES CHAPTER 1 EARLY LIFE 1. House of Commons Hansard, 11 December 1957. 2. The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah, London, Nelson, 1957, p.12. 3. Letter to author, 1986. 4. Quoted Autobiography, p.22. 5. Bankole Timothy, Kwame Nkrumah from Cradle to Grave, London, Gavin Press, 1981, p.16. 6. I. Geiss, The Pan African Movement, London, Methuen, 1974, p.355. 7. African Interpreter, September 1942. 8. Educational Outlook, November 1943. 9. K. Nkrumah, Towards Colonial Freedom, London, Heinemann, 1962, p.27. 10. Ibid., p.35. 11. Ibid., p.43. CHAPTER 2 LONDON INTERLUDE 1. Autobiography, p.48. 2. Ibid., p.58. 3. L.H. Ofosu-Appiah, The Life and Times of J.B. Danquah, Accra, Waterville Press, 1974, p.52. 4. Ibid., p.53. CHAPTER 3 SECRETARY OF THE UGCC 1. West Africa, 5 October 1987. 2. Polly Hill, The Migrant Cocoa Farmer, London, Cambridge University Press, 1963. 3. Granada Television, End of Empire Series. 1985, The Gold Coast. 4. Ofosu-Appiah, Life and Times of J.B. Danquah, p.57. 5. House of Commons Hansard, 1 March 1948. 6. Watson Report (Col. No. 231), June 1948. 7. Ofosu-Appiah, Life and Times of J.B. Danquah, p.78. 8. Ashanti Pioneer, 5 March 1949. CHAPTER 4 BIRTH OF THE CPP 1. Autobiography, p.107. 2. Quoted in Brian Lapping, End of Empire, London, Granada, 1985, p.370. 3. Ibid., p.373. 4. Autobiography, p.113. 5. Legislative Council Minutes, December 1949. 6. David Rooney, Sir Charles Arden-Clarke, London, Rex Collings, 1982, p.103. 7. Arden-Clarke Papers, Letter, 3 February 1950. 8. Autobiography, p. 132. 9. Dennis Austin, Politics in Ghana, London, Oxford University Press, 1970, p.95. CHAPTER 5 LEADER OF GOVERNMENT BUSINESS 1. This issue is dealt with in Erica Powell’s book, Private Secretary (Female) Gold Coast, London, Hurst, 1984, p.92. Erica Powell was Nkrumah’s secretary until 1966, and her book gives a sensitive and sympathetic insight into the events of this period. 2. Autobiography, p.137. 3. Arden-Clarke Papers, Letter to family, 28 February 1951. 4. Autobiography, p.148. 5. Ibid., p.158. 6. Ibid., p.168. CHAPTER 6 CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES 1. Assembly Records, 10 July 1953. 2. Assembly Records, 29 July 1954. 3. Autobiography, p.209. 4. Powell, Private Secretary, p.40. 5. Autobiography, p.215. CHAPTER 7 THE ECONOMY AND THE WORLD STAGE 1. Rooney, Sir Charles Arden-Clarke, p.143. NOTES 367 368 KWAME NKRUMAH - VISION AND TRAGEDY 2. Autobiography, p.185. 3. Interview with Erica Powell May 1987. CHAPTER 8 ASHANTI AND THE NLM 1. Interview with Gbedemah, 1986. 2. Arden-Clarke Papers, Loveridge Report, 12 May 1954. 3. Arden-Clarke Papers, Letter, 7 November 1954. 4. Arden-Clarke Papers, Letter, 12 February 1955. 5. Ibid., Letter, 21 February 1955. 6. Observer, 6 February 1955. 7. Daily Echo, 25 March 1955. 8. Security Report, 23 October 1955. 9. Powell, Private Secretary, p.97. 10. House of Commons Hansard, 7 December 1955. 11. The Times, 7 December 1955. 12. Accra Evening News, 2 January 1956. 13. Quoted in Austin, Politics in Ghana, p.308. 14. Arden-Clarke Papers, January 1956. 15. Interview with Colin Russell, 1985. 16. Arden-Clarke Papers, Letter, 1 May 1956. 17. W.E.F. Ward, Short History of the Gold Coast, London, Longman, 1935, p.217. 18. Arden-Clarke Papers, Letter, 27 May 1956. 19. Rooney, Sir Charles Arden-Clarke, p.191. 20. Arden-Clarke Papers, Letter, 31 May 1956. CHAPTER 9 THE 1956 ELECTION - THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES 1. Quoted in Granada ‘End of Empire Series’. The Gold Coast. 2. Autobiography, p.269. 3. Quoted in Austin, Politics in Ghana, p.330. 4. Ibid., p.332. 5. Autobiography, p.271. 6. Arden-Clarke Papers, Letter, 15 July 1956. 7. Autobiography, p.273. 8. Arden-Clarke Papers, Letter, 12 August 1956. 9. Assembly Records, 2 August 1956. 10. Arden-Clarke Papers, Letter, 26 August 1956. 11. Thirty years later, in an interview with the author in 1986, Appiah repeated this same view - ignoring the constitutional position which gave Arden-Clarke no such power. Appiah further maintained that because Arden-Clarke failed to act at that moment he must be blamed for all the subsequent problems in Ghana. 12. Autobiography, p.258. 13. Ashanti Pioneer, 29 November 1956. 14. House of Commons Hansard, 11 December 1956. 15. Rooney, Sir Charles Arden-Clarke, p.205. 16. Arden-Clarke...