Topics: the economic troubles in Ghana; collapse of the cocoa prices; bitterness of an underdeveloped country left at the mercy of the developed; economic build-up; wild loans and speculation; unproductive projects; overseas aid refused; International Monetary Fund reports and programmes, but money refused; turning to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; military coup of March 1966.
A series of seminars on Africa given by the Department of Political Studies at The University of Auckland. They were presented part of the Political Studies Stage 3 paper: 30.32 (c) A topic in the politics of new states. 1966: New Nations in Africa.