The Gold Coast’s force expanded to eight thousand, suppressing local rioting and nationalist demands emerging from Kwame Nkrumah and his supporters, some of whom had incubated ideas alongside George Padmore in London. Other agents of empire who had learned ideas and techniques in Britain also made their way to the Gold Coast. Among them was Robin “Tin Eye” Stephens, fresh from his acquittal on charges of torture in the postwar interrogation cells in Bad Nenndorf.
