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The first step The Press rif Africa was the closure by Thomson of the Express. It should re-appear shortly afterwards in its new guise with the Post. But before the new venture got off the ground in January 1966, Tafawa Balewa was found dead in a ditch. The army had come to power. Thomson decided to cut his losses and get out. Coltart sold offthe plant and closed the books on their West African venture. It had been a costly safari. In late 1976, sitting in his sixteenth-ftoor office at London's Press Centre, Coltart was asked wh ether it had been worth Thomson's while to go into Africa.
King toyed with the idea of starting an entirely new venture, but ca me round to the view that it was better to re-vamp an existing newspaper than start a new one. He settled on the Daily Times in Lagos which had two off-shoot magazines, West Africa and the West African Review. Between them, the three publications were making [;2,000 a year and King bought the tripie package for [;46,000 towards the end of 1947. His recipe for the new Daily Times was direct and simple; it must not take sides in the political gang war; it must cater for Africans and be edited by an African (if this sounds unoriginal, then one only has to look at many other parts of British Africa to realise how novel it was), and finally it should print more local news.
It meant', said Ernest Ikoli at the end of his career many years later, 'that if you fell out with the owner of the paper you were not finished'. In fact, after he left the Daily Times, Ikoli edited the Daily Telegraph founded in 1927 as a bi-lingual paper, and later the Daily Service. West AJrica: A Black Press Jor Black Men The pattern in Accra on the Gold Coast was similar. What were to become the two great nerve centres of British West Africa had assumed separate identities, though the links between the newspapermen of both towns were dose.