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Born. To Kwame Nkrumah, 49, Prime Minister of Ghana, and Fatia Nkrumah, 29, his Christian Egyptian wife: their first child, a son; in Accra. Name: Kweku...
...ostrich of chic Madame Claude de Guirin-gaud, wife of France's ambassador, disappeared, who should come hurrying to the rescue? None other than Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah himself. Hearing a missing-bird bulletin over the state radio station, Nkrumah forthwith phoned the chief of police in Accra to get his head out of the sand. Dragnet-quick result: the chief found his quarry in his own garden, triumphantly reported to the P.M., who triumphantly eased Madame's distress...
...French charge d'affaires in Accra, it seemed that Ghana's Foreign Minister Kojo Botsio was only trying to be helpful. The Foreign Minister had called him in especially to warn the French of a sinister plot about to take place in neighboring Togoland, which the French have run under trusteeship since World War I. Botsio's intelligence seemed detailed; he knew what roads were to be seized and at what hour, what communications lines would be cut, just who in the Togoland government would be arrested. It was all very convincing, even though the French diplomat...
Olympio was right, and four days later the French withdrew with what dignity they could. But what about the Ghana story of a plot? Was it just a trap to embarrass Olympio? In Accra officials said nothing, and Paris thought it best to do the same. Sighed one Parisian official helplessly: "Charmant...
...himself declared "Supreme Leader" by his followers, and began receiving homage seated on a leopard skin, symbol of tribal supreme power. Meanwhile, the rival Bangalas also began organizing, and the bush telegraph began to echo the nationalist sentiments of the recent All African Peoples Conference in Accra. To make matters worse, the demand for Congolese copper ore hit a slump, and jobless natives swarmed into the city to find work. Finally, one day last week, 4,000 blacks jammed into the courtyard of a Y.M.C.A. to hear Kasavubu speak at an unauthorized protest meeting. When the police arrived, the riots...