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Africa: Lindsay Barrett At 80 in West Africa

[Ghanaian Times] It was in Dakar in March 1966 that I made the definite decision to spend an extended portion of my life in West Africa. When I had left Paris in February of that year to attend the first Festival of Black and African Arts and Culture I had decided that I would visit and if possible work in Nkrumah's Ghana, for a short while after the festival.Unfortunately, by the time the festival ended Nkrumah was no longer on the seat in Ghana. The gale of military usurpation of power had swept him aside and the dream o

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