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How J.B. Danquah wanted Queen Elizabeth’s head, not Nkrumah’s on Ghana’s currency

Just some three months after Ghana gained independence on March 6, 1957, the rivalry between Dr. J. B. Danquah’s National Liberation Movement (NLM) and Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s Convention People’s Party (CPP) simply could not go away, manifesting into a much broader situation that led the then opposition holding a press conference regarding …

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Okyenhene calls for forgiveness for Late J.B. Danquah’s inhumane treatment under Nkrumah-led CPP

Okyenhene Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin has called for forgiveness for Ghana’s first President, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, and functionaries of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) for their inhumane treatment that led to the untimely death of Joseph Kyeretwie Boakye Danquah while in Prison. J.B Danquah, a statesman, pan-Africanist, author, poet, …

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