ACHEAMPONG, IGNATIUS KUTU

kooˈtoo ächāˈämpông, 1931–79, government official in Ghana, b. Kumasi. He taught before joining (1959) the army, where he advanced to colonel. In 1972, following a bloodless army coup that overthrew Kofi Abrefa Busia, he became chairman of the ruling National Redemption Council. In 1978 he resigned and in 1979 he was executed after a successful coup by young officers of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council.

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Scarcity, Choice, and Public Policy in Middle Africa
Book by Donald Rothchild, Robert L. Curry Jr.; University of California Press, 1978
Subjects: Africa--Economic Policy, Africa--Politics And Government, Policy Sciences
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An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution, 1945-1996
Book by John E. Jessup; Greenwood Press, 1998
Subjects: Conflict Management--History--20th Century--Dictionaries, Military History, Modern--20th Century--Dictionaries, Political Violence--History--20th Century--Dictionaries
...rioting broke out after the assassination. Acheampong, Ignatius Kutu. (b. 23 September 1931, Kumasi, Gold Coast...staff. He became Ghanas leader when he ousted Ignatius Acheampong (qv) in a 1978 coup. Akuffo was in turn ousted...
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Invisible Sojourners: African Immigrant Diaspora in the United States
Book by John A. Arthur; Praeger, 2000
Subjects: Africa--Emigration And Immigration, African Diaspora, Africans--Migrations, Africans--United States--Social Conditions, Immigrants--United States--Social Conditions, United States--Emigration And Immigration
...no administrative accountability. Throughout his reign as head of the military government in Ghana, General Ignatius Kutu Acheampong made it very difficult for professionals and students who were embroiled in political conflict with the government...
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Invisible Sojourners: African Immigrant Diaspora in the United States
Book by John A. Arthur; Praeger, 2000
Subjects: Africa--Emigration And Immigration, African Diaspora, Africans--Migrations, Africans--United States--Social Conditions, Immigrants--United States--Social Conditions, United States--Emigration And Immigration
...no administrative accountability. Throughout his reign as head of the military government in Ghana, General Ignatius Kutu Acheampong made it very difficult for professionals and students who were embroiled in political conflict with the government...
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Culture and Customs of Ghana
Book by Steven J. Salm, Toyin Falola; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: Ghana--Civilization, Ghana--Social Life And Customs
...1972 79 Lieutenant Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong used force to, in his words...popular economic measures. Acheampongs National Redemption Council...leadership of the SMC replaced Acheampong with Lieutenant General Frederick...
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Spectacular Nation: Nkrumahist Art and Resistance Iconography in the Ghanaian Independence Era
Journal article by Janet Hess; African Arts, Vol. 39, 2006
Subjects: Ghana--Cultural policy, Ghanaian history--Political aspects, Ghanaian history--Social aspects, National identity--Political aspects, National identity--Portrayals, National identity--Social aspects, Nkrumah, Kwame--Cultural policy, Political art--Criticism and interpretation, Politics in art--Criticism and interpretation
...monuments associated with his rule underwent a transformation. When Nkrumah died in exile in 1972, Ghanaian president Ignatius Kutu Acheampong ordered the return of his body to Ghana, and Nkrumah was granted a state funeral in Accra. A modest mausoleum...


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Ghana: Politics of Betrayal
Magazine article by A.B. Assensoh; New African, March 2007
Subjects: Ghana--Political aspects, Nkrumah, Kwame--Political activity, Presidents (Government)--Political activity, Presidents--Political activity
...on 13 January 1972, Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong overthrew Dr Kofi Abrefa Busias...was not until July 1972 that Acheampongs regime agreed to bring Nkrumahs...Region, as Nkrumah had wished. Acheampong acceded to conditions set by...


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Acheampong, Ignatius Kutu
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ACHEAMPONG, IGNATIUS KUTU koo too acha ampong, 1931 79, government official in Ghana, b. Kumasi. He taught before joining (1959) the army, where he advanced...


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