New African, July 1st, 2002
Under the Neem Tree
Southerners and Northerners rarely mixed in those days and didn't understand each other's language. This made them mutually hostile towards each other. Which suited the British authorities very well, for it meant they could rely on the Northerners in the Police Force to be ruthless if ever the people needed to be repressed.
Kyebi in the early 1950s was full of very colourful characters. The most interesting guy was, without doubt, Kwaku Ahyia. A veteran of the Second World War, he had decided, on his return home from Burma, that as far as he was concerned, the war had not...
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