How Edward Acquah nearly got me into trouble: a great footballer died in poverty on 5 October 2011; but during his heyday 50 years ago, Edward Acquah was dynamite!(Under the Neem Tree) (In memoriam) (Column)

New African › Nbr. 2011, January 2011

Author: Duodu, Cameron

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How Edward Acquah nearly got me into trouble: a great footballer died in poverty on 5 October 2011; but during his heyday 50 years ago, Edward Acquah was dynamite!(Under the Neem Tree) (In memoriam) (Column)

A whole half a century has passed, but I remember it like yesterday. I had just been promoted to the role of news editor at the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, and was fully in charge of the news to be broadcast at 6pm that Sunday. Normally a senior editor or even the head of news would take a look at the bulletin before it went on air, but it being a Sunday, none of them was around and the baby was entirely in my hands. As it happ...

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