7. Kwame Nkrumah Was Accused of Sponsoring A Failed Assassination On the President of Niger in 1965
Nkrumah was vigorously pushing for African Unity and the continent’s acceptance of his socialist/communist ideas. Anyone who was against this was fairly an enemy.
In April 1965, there was an assassination attempt on the president of Niger and Nkrumah was fingered as the key sponsor. Though Nkrumah denied this, the then president of Ivory Coast-Felix Houphouet-Boigny challenged Nkrumah’s denial and released evidence of guerrilla training camps in Ghana staffed by Chinese Communist instructors, indicating that Nkrumah had a hand in the assassination attempt.
At the Organization of African Unity meeting in June 1965, Niger’s representatives further released evidence showing seven guerrilla training camps operating in Ghana with Chinese and East German instructors when Nkrumah through his representatives tried to shrug off criticism.
7 EVIL Things Dr. Kwame Nkrumah Did That You Probably Didn't Know–He "Hated" Ewes & Excluded Them From His Government
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In all persons there is good and there is bad, it is a matter of proportion, is the good greater that the bad or the other way around? Was Nkrumah rule worst that the European colonial masters? He was one of them and in the long run the young country would benefit from his efforts in spite of his flaws, he was an native, not representing outside rule, but was an indigenous leader with a vision and a determination to accomplish his vision, but as usual the worst enemies of progress are many times are their own people who forgets what it was under foreign rule.