Ever heard of the 'kankan nyame'?
Well, while there remain many interpretations of what it was or not, a man who lived in the very period that the term became very prominent, Kojo Bonsu, has shared details of what exactly it was.
Speaking in an interview on Channel One TV, Kojo Bonsu (real name Michael Kwadwo Mensah Bonsu), a former Mayor of Kumasi, explained the circumstances that him to live at the Flagstaff House under Kwame Nkrumah.
With his sister married to Nkrumah's chief protocol officer at the time, he was privileged to live at the seat of government, he explained. "My senior sister, may she rest in peace - she's passed on, when I was about 3 years old, by then, she hadn't given birth and she had married the chief protocol officer of Dr Kwame Nkrumah.
