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Students will apply to the West African Office of the African-American Institute in Accra rather than directly to the college of their choice. However, Henry pointed out, the plan does not prevent a student from applying directly to an American college without going through the new machinery...
...here to see and learn," said Britain's Harold Macmillan carefully as he stepped off his plane in humid Accra to begin a month in Africa. This was the thing to say, for Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, his host for the first lap of the trip, was clearly in a teaching mood...
...Macmillan and Lady Dorothy, the fun came in strolls through Accra's colorful street markets, where mobs of merchant "mammies" screamed "Akwaaba" (welcome) and jovially spread bright kente cloth on the streets for the Macmillans to walk on. Showered with gifts, Macmillan gingerly examined a preferred smoked fish, retorting, "What, no chips?" Natty in a grey tropical suit, the Prime Minister even mounted a surf craft to be paddled briefly out to sea by a team of Accra's skillful boatmen...
...Macmillans tactfully stayed home when Nkrumah addressed a huge crowd at Accra's main arena to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Nkrumah's independence campaign against Britain, begun back in the days when Ghana was the Gold Coast colony. "I wish to sound a note of warning," shouted Nkrumah, as the throng shrieked "eee-yah" in approval, "that the enemies of African freedom, namely the colonial powers and their imperialist collaborators, are planning hard to sabotage African unity . . . They are prepared to grant political independence, but are also planning to dominate the African territories in the economic...
With a blare of bugles and a rattle of drums, indignant speakers mounted a platform in Accra one evening last week for an "emergency demonstration" by Kwame Nkrumah's Convention Peoples' Party and the Ghana Labor Congress against TIME. An Anglican parson besought God to "destroy those who print what is not true." Led on by vanguard activists ("Comrades recruited from among the most politically educated section of party leadership [to] become educators of broad masses, especially of our illiterate comrades," Nkrumah has called them), the audience shouted Nkrumah's slogans, and Ghana "market mammies" performed tribal...