Word: lincolns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University College, a University of London affiliate due for degree-granting autonomy in 1962. In ten years it has turned out 550 graduates, aims eventually at 5,000 students of all races. Ghana's volatile Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, himself a graduate of the U.S.'s Lincoln University, denounces it for costliness (160 senior teachers for 650 students), frets because the predominantly British faculty holds out for classical education against the practicalities that Nkrumah favors. Yet the college sparks Ghana's drive to uplift education at all levels, a model for Africa to ponder...
...Lincoln...
...Duties: "Mboya is an imp not fit to lick Nkrumah's boots . . . Nkrumah is a consuming fire. Anybody who tries to destroy him will be destroyed first." Everyone knows, concluded Party Secretary Adamafio, that "Nkrumah is a superman, master and god on his own scene. America had its Lincoln, Russia its Lenin, Britain its Nelson. Nkrumah...