Ghana, 1967 — dissident coup conspiracy
Event Summary
This entry is coded 23 January 1967, during the rule of the National Liberation Council, the military and police junta that had overthrown President Kwame Nkrumah on 24 February 1966 while he was abroad. Nkrumah took asylum in Guinea, where President Sekou Toure made him honorary co-president and where he actively sought his own restoration to power, keeping alive fears of pro-Nkrumah plotting inside Ghana. The NLC, chaired by Lieutenant General Joseph Ankrah, governed amid austerity, unemployment and unrest, and in January 1967 it authorized the use of military tribunals for civilians accused of subversion, reflecting its concern about conspiracies against the new order.
The January 1967 coding sits in this period of anti-subversion vigilance, months before the failed counter-coup of 17 April 1967 in which the prominent Ewe general Emmanuel Kotoka was killed.
Researched Details
Researched
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Sources
Editorial Note
Cross-Reference
Only one dataset carries it. One of the three reference datasets we check against carries this event; the others do not list it. That is not a contradiction — the datasets cover different periods and use different thresholds — but it means the record has had less outside corroboration.
Identifiers for finding this same event in the other datasets:
- Cline Center id
45201231967
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: The NLC junta held power; it survived the April 1967 counter-coup and later handed over to civilian rule in 1969.
Baseline coding: Plot discovered and disrupted before execution. Recorded leader fate: remained in office; not physically harmed. The baseline file does not name individual targets; researched names are kept in a separate layer.
Baseline Dataset Citation
Baseline Source-Document Entries
CSP
Irish Times
New York Times
Washington Post
This is the citation trail carried by the baseline dataset, grouped by outlet and rejoined from the line-wrapped original. Coup Atlas has not independently re-checked every document; read the original before citing a specific claim. URLs the import damaged beyond safe repair are shown as plain text and listed in citations-report.md. How this list is built →