1966: Ghana

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No event of the year came as a greater shock or produced deeper repercussions on the African continent than the fall from power of Ghana President Kwame Nkrumah, founder of the first black African state to emerge from colonial rule and the most forceful advocate of African unity. Faced with a... ...