ABSTRACT
Ghana, when we landed there in September 1957, had been an independent country for just six months, and there were as yet few visible signs of its change of status. Kwame Nkrumah still ruled as prime minister, not yet as president, and the continuing Commonwealth connection was symbolised by a British governor general, Lord Listowel, who occupied the residence of the former Danish and British governors at Christiansborg Castle. Despite great efforts during the transitional period to train and promote Ghanaians to fill the leading positions in government service, a great many former British colonial officials were still employed on a contract basis. Both the army and the police force still had British commanding officers, and in fact the main fears of the ruling nationalist politicians were concentrated less on expatriate influences than on their ability to command the loyalty of the small indigenous elite of businessmen, lawyers, administrators, and senior teachers, all of whom were much better educated than they were. In these circumstances it did not seem too strange that an embryo university with 550 students in all subjects should be staffed by 120 teachers, 110 of whom were expatriates and held all the senior positions.
