Ghana’s Interrupted Revolution and Legacy of the 1966 Coup
Sixty years on, the evidence is unmistakable: the 1966 coup was not a heroic rescue of Ghanaian democracy but a Cold War–entangled rupture that derailed a fragile national project. Though Nkrumah’s rule introduced stringent security measures like the PDA, much of that unfolded amid real assassination plots and sustained external pressure. The officers who claimed […]