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...almost two months, his yacht, the Caleb (Seagull), had hopped from port to port because Tito is afraid of airplanes. Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah had a warm hug for the visitor before the two drove down crowd-lined highways to a physical-fitness rally at Accra Stadium. In Conakry, Guinean girls danced in the streets, cheering wildly as Tito waved from his open car; and in Bamako, capital of little neutralist Mali, school children chanted: "We are Tito's. Tito is ours...
Nkrumah's goal is to unite crumbling colonial Africa in a vast, new black empire under Ghana's banner. To spread the gospel, he employs the slickest public relations outfit in Africa, Accra's Bureau of African Affairs. The bureau was set up in 1957, when Africa was still largely in white men's shackles. But its efforts today seem aimed as much at upsetting black regimes that do not cooperate with Nkrumah as at white colonialism...
Operating from a dingy two-story building near the American embassy in Accra, B.A.A. turns out pamphlets by the ton on an official budget of $26,000 a year, which is probably bolstered by another $200,000 in covert funds. Close by is the African...
...turn some of the anger against the U.S., which had never even possessed an African colony, with the argument that any ally of Belgium must be an enemy of the black man. In Ghana, crowds organized by Kwame Nkrumah's party officials pranced through the streets of Accra with placards reading UNITED STATES MURDERS LUMUMBA, besieged the U.S. embassy, ripped the emblem from over the door and smashed an outdoor light with rifle shots. Even in Western-oriented Nigeria, the U.S. embassy was attacked and its windows smashed by thousands of shrieking Nigerians...
Keep in Tune. Last week, already pinched for money to support his vaunted aid programs to other African nations, Nkrumah bluntly ordered the Times and the News to pay their own way or perish. Worse yet, Accra rumor had it that Nkrumah intended to let both papers die and to replace them in a year or so with a less propagandistic daily printed in the $4,500,000 printing plant that the East Germans have promised to build for him near Accra. In undisguised anguish, the Times and News printed appeals to their declining readership. "Don't ever forget...