ABSTRACT
The achievement of 1951, regarding the mining in the Gold Coast, gave Nkrumah what was perhaps his greatest hour. Later there would be more obvious advances and more imposing moments of success. Some critics would say that Nkrumah and the C.P.P. had simply 'bought the British plan', and that, by accepting a process of slow reform, they had sacrificed the hopes of revolution. These critics were mis-reading history and its possibilities. There was no chance in 1951 of any far-reaching change, much less of revolution. Nkrumah was to form a C.P.P. government in a country still under stiff colonial rule. As the head of this government he was not even to be called prime minister, but only 'leader of government business'. Just how successful the British were going to be in doing this, and how far they could count on Ghanaian help in doing it, remained questions for the future.
