Osagyefo, ……. It only took 57 years.

The first explosive ordnance directed at the constitutionally elected leader of the Gold Coast colony, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, was detonated at his home in Accra New Town on November 10, 1955. This fact is important because Kwame Nkrumah had done nothing dictatorial or arbitrary at this point in his leadership of the Gold Coast as he pushed toward total .