The Story of Esther Ulzen-Appiah December 1, 2015 Godsgrace Tetteyfio Esther Ulzen-Appiah, a retired university lecturer in Textiles and Fashion, shares her memories on growing up under Kwame Nkrumah’s presidency, the detention of political leaders under the Preventive Detention Act, and the student protest movement (commonly referred to as aluta continua) that occurred at Ghana’s universities in the 1970s.