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Kwame Nkrumah. the wonder boy of West Africa, rose to fame & fortune by denouncing British imperialism in his booming colony of the Gold Coast. Last week, as Prime Minister of what soon may become the first black dominion in the British Commonwealth. Nkrumah came face to face with a starker imperialism. Cominform agents were infiltrating Sold Coast trade unions. Nkrumah, who got his education at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, has borrowed ideas from Marx as well as from Jefferson (TIME, Feb. 9). He consulted his British advisers. They reminded him of what happened last month in British Guiana, carefully leaving the impression that a Communist movement in the Gold Coast would jeopardize the colony's demand for dominion status. Nkrumah thereupon suspended

Turkson Ocran, secretary of the Gold Coast Trade Union Congress, and Ocran's friend, Anthony Woode, who had attended a conference of the Communist World Federation of Trade Unions. It was Ocran who organized the anti-British strikes that helped Nkrumah to power in 1951. Said Nkrumah: "It is not in the best interest of our country for any nationalist engaged in the struggle for independence to allow himself to be used by Communist organizations."

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