As a young man in the mid-1930s, he had scraped together enough cash from his farming family in what was then the British colony of Gold Coast to travel to the U.S. 'It's a lot of bulls**t.'Īt the time, Nkrumah was likely Africa's most influential leader. 'Well, that's nice,' says Nat Nuno-Amarteifio, an architect and amateur historian who served as mayor of Accra from 1994-98 and remembers the queen's supposedly fateful visit from when he was a teenage student.
It's the foxtrot that changes the course of history. Later, JFK (Michael Hall) crows to Jackie that her jab at the queen precipitated a major foreign policy victory for the U.S. The implication is that, in exchange for his photo op dancing with the queen, Nkrumah will 'come back to the fold' and squash Soviet hopes for Africa. To everyone's relief, the dance is a success. It's a high-stakes political gamble that could decide the balance of Soviet power in Africa, which in the early 1960s was fast emerging as a Cold War battleground.
The foxtrot, specifically, to the extreme, hilarious consternation of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (Anton Lesser).
Her solution: A dance with Nkrumah at a ball in the capital, Accra. Monkey See Season 2 Of 'The Crown' Exposes The Royal Family's Fitful Evolution
