ABSTRACT
Kwame Nkrumah was able to rent part of an aged building that belonged to the great British trading corporation, the United Africa Company. In January 1948, pushing ahead, Nkrumah called a meeting of the Working Committee of the United Gold Coast Convention, and told its members what he thought should be done, and how it should be done. But when Nkrumah and the 'rabble' came thumping on the door of power, bringing with them the rough unlovely snout of popular agitation, the gentlemen were as horrified as the chief in the Chinese fable. There is a Chinese fable which tells about them very well. Once upon a time there was a good old chief who fell in love with the idea of dragons. He employed artists to make pictures of dragons for the walls of his palace. He called on sculptors to make carvings of dragons. He commissioned potters to make china figures of dragons.
