ABSTRACT
After his ten-year struggle for power, there followed a nine-year use of power. No one can understand the nature of the Nkrumah regime's ultimate failure without having understood the nature of its initial triumph. What happened after 1957, and what could happen then, were continually and closely governed by what had gone before. Independence brought no sharp break with the past. The fruits of the years of compromise of 1951-57 were reaped in generous measure. Higher education was to show the same expansion. The old college at Achimota became a fully-fledged university at nearby Legon; a new university with emphasis on science was launched at Kumasi; a third was also set upon its way. The English began to found new university colleges in their African colonies after the second world war. On 27 April 1972, six years after going to Conakry, he died in a Roumanian hospital where he was reportedly receiving treatment for cancer.
