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Nkrumah’s

Ghana Memories, Abandoned Tractors

on October 1st, 2009 by Jack Toronto

Rusted yellow Czechoslovakian tractors littered the countryside in the aftermath of the February 1966 coup that toppled Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s leader since independence from Britain in 1957.  Relics of Nkrumah’s alignment with Soviet block countries, they became disabled orphans for lack of replacement parts when the National Liberation Council turned to the west for

Filed under: Opinion/Comment Tagged as: Abandoned Tractors, Czechoslovakian, farmers, Ghana Memories, Nkrumah’s
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