Encounters with J B Danquah (Part 1) And Slices of Theater

Encounters with J B Danquah (Part 1) And Slices of Theater

ByAfrikaba Ronnie

Encounters with J B Danquah (Part 1) And Slices of Theater By Professor Kwesi Yankah No, not really encounters with J. B. At the peak of J. B. Danquah’s career and political life as a lawyer, statesman, philosopher, nationalist, I wasn’t even an embryo. Born in 1895, J. B. Danquah was 14 years older than…

J.B. Danquah’s letter to Kwame Nkrumah from prison before he died

J.B. Danquah’s letter to Kwame Nkrumah from prison before he died

ByAfrikaba Ronnie

56years ago today, February 4, 1965, Dr. Joseph Boakye Danquah, a Ghanaian politician died in Nsawam after 13 months in detention without trial under President Kwame Nkrumah’s preventive detention regime. We reproduce his last letter to Kwame Nkrumah before his unfortunate demise. Dear Dr. Nkrumah, I am tired of being in prison on preventive detention…