Bankole Timothy

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Emmanuel Bankole Timothy (July 3, 1923 – June 20, 1994) was a Sierra Leonean journalist. He was also an author and biographer of Albert Margai, prime minister of Sierra Leone (1964–1967), and Kwame Nkrumah, president of Ghana (1960–1966).

[edit] Career

Bankole Timothy was for many years editor of the Daily Graphic in Accra. According to the March 12, 1990 edition of the Swedish newspaper iDAG, he was employed during the 1980s by De Beers, the diamond mining and marketing conglomerate, issuing notices to the press whenever new mines or diamond deposits were about to be exploited.

Timothy was alleged to have been instrumental in persuading Bernt Carlsson – UN Commissioner for Namibia – to stopover at London on December 21, 1988 for a meeting with De Beers. Carlsson had intended to fly direct from Brussels to New York for the signing ceremony at UN headquarters on December 22, 1988 of the agreement, under which South Africa was forced by the Security Council to grant independence to Namibia. Because his travel plans to New York were changed, Carlsson died when Pan Am Flight 103 crashed at Lockerbie, Scotland on December 21, 1988.

[edit] Publications

Bankole Timothy's publications include:

• Albert Margai of Africa, Bankole Timothy
• Kwame Nkrumah: His rise to power, Northwestern University Press (1963)
• Missionary shepherds and African sheep: how does Christianity as preached and practised by Europe and America appear to Africans? Daystar Press (1971)
• Africa: dawn or darkness? Davison Publishing Ltd (1976) ISBN 978-0-904130-08-9
• Kwame Nkrumah, from cradle to grave Gavin Press (1981) ISBN 978-0-905868-06-6
• Yesterday's Africans Delta of Nigeria (1982) ISBN 978-978-2335-95-1

[edit] External links

• West Africa magazine photos
• Daily Graphic website
• Carlsson under pressure from "the polished gangsters"