July 1958: Gee! She Is Beatiful - GHANA'S FIRST SIGHT
July 1958: Gee! She Is Beatiful - GHANA'S FIRST SIGHT OF HER:There were mutters of approval all round as the people of Ghana got a glimpse of Mrs. Nkrumah, right, at a ceremony when a statue of her husband was unveiled. The important ceremony was over. The Prime Minister of Ghana, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, rose from his seat and walked down the aisle. But for once Ghana's leader failed to draw the stares. We were all looking at his wife, the former Miss Fathia Helen Ritzk, of Egypt. When, on December 30 last year, Ghana heard that Dr. Nkrumah had been married that morning to a woman they had never heard of, and who had arrived unheralded in the country only that day, it was the manner of the marriage rather than the fact that shocked the country. (Photograph by Drum Photographer BAHA)
