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"When Kwame Nkrumah married his Egyptian bride, Miss Fathia Halen Ritzk, in a surprise wedding," notes the New African of February 2006, "British and American authorities were sent into a panic as they feverishly sought to determine what the political implications were". On that issue, the New African columnist, Carina Ray, unearth a lot of political exchanges from the archives to prove that it was indeed The marriage that sent the West into panic. For instance, she observe that the then British High Commissioner in Accra, Sir Ian Maclennan, informed the Commonwealth Relations Officer (CRO) "that there were 'no doubt' that Prime Minister Gamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt hoped to 'build something on the foundation of the marriage.'"![]()
Source: UDADISI: Rethinking in Action: On Becoming Samia Nkrumah
Kuna kitabu kimoja kuhusu maisha ya Nkrumah nilisoma zamani sana, Mwandishi simkumbuki, naona mwandishi hakuitaja kabisa hii kadhia ya huyu mwanamama, sijui kwa malengo yepi ..duh..I'm surprised and speechless!