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...sagging pretensions as Africa's leader, he has invited the heads of all African states to a giant pan-African summit conference in September-and is pouring more than $4,000,000 into a project called "Job 600," a complex of halls and theaters being built in Accra to accommodate the conference. But his reputation for subversion has put him in such bad odor that many moderate Africans now threaten to boycott the summit...
...interference in their internal affairs," a third recently captured a band of Nkrumah-trained guerrillas; and for the past five years little Togo has had all it could do to keep Nkrumah from annexing it. After a Nkrumah-sponsored student demonstration outside the Nigerian High Commission in Accra this month, the Prime Minister of Africa's most populous nation resolutely joined the chorus of critics...
...There is a certain madness in Ghana at present," Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa told a press conference last week. "We should not boycott the conference because of Ghana's puerile attitude but rather because it is difficult for the heads of state to meet in Accra, where the undesirable elements of their own countries are harbored by the Ghanaian government...
...looked like a regular hegira at Accra International Airport as 5,000 frantic Ghanaians cheered, "Welcome, King of the World! Welcome, Mohammed Ali!" Actually it was only that latter-day prophet, Heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay, 22, who speedily made clear that he likes Moslem women and customs. "I'm going to get me four wives and take them back home," he 'lowed. "Abigail will sit beside me feeding me grapes. Susie will be rubbing olive oil over my beautiful muscles. Cecilia will be shining my shoes, and there'll be Peaches, too. I don't know...
These universities at Lagos, Nigeria, and Accra in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) were patterned carefully after the universities which then existed in England...