In the park's center is an eye-catching bronze statue of a larger-than-life Nkrumah, clad in royal kente cloth, with an outstretched hand pointing ahead and one foot in front of the other as if he were advancing forward. Erected on top of a pedestal at the spot where Nkrumah stood to declare Ghana's independence from Britain, it channels the slogan of Nkrumah's political party: 'Forward ever, backward never.'
Norman Tebbit was divisive in life and he divided in death. Having revelled in the demise of some of his enemies, this key ally of Margaret Thatcher may well have accepted that some of those foes would rejoice in his own end. As someone who rolled with the punches, he would hardly have been the sort to demand people be prosecuted for 'hate crimes' over crudely insensitive gloating.
Nate Holdenâs political journey was marked by a fierce determination, rising from challenging beginnings in Georgia to become a significant political figure in Los Angeles.