330:, a dedicated PanAfricanist. In 1965, while at the University of Ghana, Modibo (as he was popularly called by his college mates) was elected the national president of the Ghana Socialist Students Organisation (GHANASSO), a pro-Nkrumah student movement embracing all the tertiary educational institutions in Ghana. In that capacity, he was briefly detained after the military coup against Kwame Nkrumah in 1966.
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