Ghana's First Republic, 1960-1966: The Pursuit of the Political Kingdom

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By Trevor Jones

Methuen/Barnes & Noble, 1977, 366 pp

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As Jones sees it, Nkrumah's failure flowed most clearly from a colossal ineptitude in management - an inability to get his socialist projects off the ground or to control the massive and venal party apparatus he had created.

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