Ghana: Our Republic, a Nation, and a Programme

opinion

What is called "Senior High" in Ghana today was then known as "Secondary School" in my days. Those days could be equated with Dr. Nkrumah's days as well, only I was a student, and he lived at the Flagstaff House as "the progressively flamboyant boss of the Nation." Something else was concurrently as interesting. Dr. Nkrumah had taken his first Degree in the USA, but he topped it all up with a course in England at the prestigious "London School of Economics", just like many men and women later of prominence had taken.

The legendary "Mr. Lee Kuan Yew" of Singapore had passed through the same path, and we all have witnessed what became of him in his country, as also in the world view, as a result. If Dr. Nkrumah hadn't done the same, but had by chance just returned home to work as a civil servant in the Gold Coast [later in Ghana], his emolument would have been 50% of his counterpart's, who might have had an equivalent qualification from England.

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