For many years after the military coup d'état that overthrew Dr. Nkrumah in 1966, and the unsuccessful insurgence by the young Army Officer Attah, and his colleagues in 1968, Ghanaian students had sat in the club houses of their dormitories (mostly overseas), and discussed matters of military takeovers in Africa, at the time an innovation in the then "awakening continent", but arousing interest beyond what words could narrate.
The number of such events too accelerated at such a pace you were always behind if you wanted to keep track. The portion of the globe, designated "the third world" (whose coinage?) at the time, was "not discernible", politically looked at. The third world did not refer at any rate to only Africa, but included Latin America, the Middle East, and the Far East.
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