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New Tucsonian Helped Give African State Fast Start
Edwin L. Read Jr., a Tucson resident and former head of a United Nations technical assistance mission in Ghana from 1956 to 1958, recalls Ghana’s rapid early growth under Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah. Read praises Nkrumah, notes Ghana’s British-model government with universal suffrage, and describes a nine-language literacy program and ballot symbols. Read, his wife Virginia, and their three children plan to remain in Tucson after purchasing El Cortez Apartments.
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Tucson
Edwin L. Read Jr
Acoma Pl
United Nations
British Commonwealth
Read
Nebraska
Kwame Nkrumah
Nkrumah
Africa
Gold Coast
Togoland
America
Algeria
South Afri
el Cortez
Virginia
Susan
Edwin L. III
Peter K
Barrington, Ill