Ghana Burial Set As Guinea Returns Body of Nkrumah (original) (raw)
Ghana Burial Set As Guinea Returns Body of Nkrumah
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July 8, 1972
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ACCRA, Ghana, July 7 (Agence France‐Presse)—The body of Kwame Nkrumah was flown back here today in a special Guinean Air Force plane.
The military Government or dered all flags to be flown at half‐staff until the former Presi dent is buried in Nkroful, a vil lage 190 miles southwest of here where he was born on Sept. 1, 1909.
Return of the pan‐African leader's body to Ghana marks the culmination of protracted negotiations between the gov erning National Redemption Council here and President Sékou Touré of Guinea. Mr. Nkrumah died on April 27 in Rumania, where he was receiv ing medical treatment, and his body was taken to Guinea.
At first, President Touré re fused Ghanaian requests for the body and gave Mr. Nkrumah a state funeral in Conakry, the Guinean capital. The Ghanaian had spent most of the years of his exile in Conakry, following his overthrow in 1966 in Ghana's first military coup. He was given the symbolic title of Co‐President of Guinea by President Touré.
A statement here by the rul ing Ghanaian council said that Mr. Nkrumah's body would lie in state tomorrow and be flown Sunday to Nkroful, where a burial vault has been con structed.
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