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Died. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, 95, Negro philosopher and editor, a founder of the N.A.A.C.P., since 1961 a card-carrying Communist; in Accra, Ghana. Du Bois won a Harvard Ph.D. in 1895, took an early lead in Negro agitation as head of the militant Niagara Movement; when it merged with the N.A.A.C.P. in 1909, he became the association's only Negro officer and editor of its monthly magazine The Crisis, got in trouble with his fiery editorials advocating separate "self-dependence" for his race, left for good in 1948 in a dispute over-of all things-his endorsement...
...guest list was a Who's Who of Africa's successful revolutionaries and moderate nation builders. Ghana's egocentric Osagyefo (Redeemer), Kwame Nkrumah, was due in from Accra. From the Congo would come the embattled Premier Cyrille Adoula. Also on the list: Nigeria's able Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa; Senegal's Senghor; Guinea's Sekou Toure; and dozens more, including, of course, that affable fellow from up north, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, who was an African of a kind...
During his six years as Ghana's boss, President Kwame Nkrumah has dealt with his opposition in a variety of ways -intimidation, jail, exile. Last week he went a step further. In a packed courtroom in Accra, where mine detectors were used to check spectators for weapons, an Nkrumah-created tribunal passed out death sentences to five enemies of the regime...
Though Ghana is 28% Christian, for most of its people politics is the highest religion and Kwame Nkrumah, known as Osagyefo (the Redeemer), the nearest thing to a god. Upset by this state of affairs, the Rt. Rev. Richard Roseveare, 60, Anglican Bishop of Accra, spoke out last August against the country's growing "godlessness" and deplored such slogans as "Africa has her own god and Nkrumah is his Jesus." As far as the government was concerned Roseveare's attitude was blasphemy, and he was given just nine hours to get out of the country...
...Year's Eve sermon, Roseveare delivered a carefully worded attack on "idolatry." He named no names, did not so much as mention Ghana, but Nkrumah's terrible-tempered press was quick to take offense. Adding a new phrase to the already rich vocabulary of invective, the Accra Evening News branded the bishop as a "vicious insinuationist," warned that unless he stops his "utter misuse of the pulpit, we shall have no alternative than to accept the gauntlet"-that is, to throw him out again...