Ghana
<div class="the_body body_world clearfix">
<p><strong>12. Ghana</strong>
There seem to be no inspiring national leaders in Africa these days. But that may be America's fault. In the 1950s and 1960s, there was a rising star in Ghana:<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Nkrumah" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Kwame Nkrumah.</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="print-footnote" style=" font-size: xx-small;">[32]</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He was Prime Minister under British rule from 1952 to 1960, when Ghana became independent and he became president. He was a socialist, a pan-African and an anti-imperialist, and, in 1965, he wrote a book called<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism</em>. Nkrumah was overthrown in a CIA coup in 1966. The CIA denied involvement at the time, but the British press later reported that 40 CIA officers operated out of the U.S. Embassy "distributing largesse among President Nkrumah's secret adversaries," and that their work "was fully rewarded." Former CIA officer John Stockwell revealed more about the CIA's decisive role in the coup in his book<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/In-Search-Enemies-CIA-Story/dp/0393009262" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In Search of Enemies</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="print-footnote" style=" font-size: xx-small;">[33]</span>.</p>
</div>
<p> </p>