Ghana HIstory 1966 to 1979

In 1977 I was attending Summit University when they rented the College of the Nazerene in Pasadena, California with my then 3 year old son (and he attended the Montessori school there at the time) and my mother also attended this quarter of Summit University too. I remember Elizabeth Clare Prophet telling the story of a man in one of the many successive governments there that believed in Church Universal and Triumphant that Elizabeth Clare Prophet ran then in the U.S. and throughout the world. This man's story was interesting because the leader of Ghana at that time (one of those government's listed here) demanded that everyone in the country be a member of Church Universal and Triumphant because religious cults often get very big in places like Africa and South America, especially back then in the 1960s and 1970s. This one man who was put before a firing squad prayed for his "Tube of Light" which is a forcefield to protect him from the bullets of the firing squad all night long before he was to be shot. When he was put before the firing squad the bullets hit his force field and just fell down to earth without hitting the man. After three times they said to him he could go because he was obviously a holy man.

Here is a part of the history of Ghana around the time this actually happened there.

 

Operation Cold Chop and aftermath

Main article: History of Ghana (1966–79)

Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum with the statue of Osagyefo.

Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and his government was subsequently overthrown by a GAF military operation codenamed "Operation Cold Chop" coup while Nkrumah was abroad with Zhou Enlai in the People's Republic of China for a fruitless mission to Hanoi in Vietnam to help end the Vietnam War on 24 February 1966 by GAF led by Field marshal Akwasi Afrifa.^[59]
A series of alternating military and civilian governments from 1966 to 1981 ended with the ascension to power of Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings of the Provisional National Defense Council (NDC) in 1981.^[60] These changes resulted in the suspension of the Constitution of Ghana in 1981, and the banning of political parties in Ghana.^[61] The economy suffered a severe decline soon after, Kwame Darko negotiated a structural adjustment plan changing many old economic policies, and economic growth soon recovered from the mid–2000s.^[61] A new Constitution of Ghana restoring multi-party system politics was promulgated in Ghanaian presidential election, 1992; Rawlings was elected as president of Ghana then, and again in Ghanaian general election, 1996.<sup>[62]

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Republicanism (in Ghana)