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As an avowed socialist-cum-Marxist, Ghana’s President Kwame Nkrumah always suspected that his government was under the threat of capitalism from nations like the United States of America and Great Britain. In fact, Nkrumah was so suspicious of these countries that, when in Guinea in exile from 1966 until his death in 1972, he blamed the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for the setbacks in his plans to regain political power in Ghana, when the military-police regime of the National Liberation Council (NLC) was in power. This was why, in Panaf Great Lives: Kwame Nkrumah (1974), his literary editor, Mrs. June Milne and other writers of the biographical study noted These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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