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Letters written by Robert Fraser, addressed to his parents, from Cape Coast, Ghana, to London between April 1970 and August 1974. The background against which the letters were written, and to which they allude, covers the parliamentary government of Dr Kofi Busia, anthropologist and politician, and his ousting by a military National Redemption Council under Colonel I. K. Acheampong in January 1972. It also refers to relations between the Ghanaian and British governments at the time, the Debt Crisis of the early 1970s, the attempted resolution, Ghana's self-styled moratorium to alleviate the economic situation, and successive negotiations with the British government. Other events described include the death of the Asantehene, Otumfuo Nana Osei Tutu Agyeman Prempeh II, in June 1970, and the enstoolment of his successor Otemfuo Nana Opoku Ware II in Kumasi that July. The immediate academic background includes the development of the University College of Cape Coast, where Robert Fraser served as Lecturer in English, its elevation to full university status in 1972, and the university strikes of February 1974.
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