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...unity," and on the surface at least, the events of the week seemed to bear him out. In Cairo, President Nasser dramatically staged a "Quit Africa Day," aimed at what was described as the common enemy of both Arabs and blacks-the Western "imperialists," those "murderers" and "bloodsuckers." In Accra, Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah began welcoming hundreds of delegates to a giant All Africa People's Conference, which was ostensibly organized as one more step toward the creation of "an ultimate commonwealth of free, independent United States of Africa...
...built the fabled city of Marrakesh. Then to the east there followed tropical Gabon, the mineral-rich Republic of Congo, and big (496,000 sq. mi.), semi-arid Chad. Though France had expected its territories to act as they did, there seemed little doubt that the announcement from Accra had brought on the sudden burst of speed...
...young black strongman named Sekou Toure, Guinea became the only territory in French Africa to reject the constitution of Premier Charles de Gaulle. Last week Touré, threatened with the loss of all his economic ties with France, flew off to Ghana. Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah was at the Accra airport with bands, a 21-gun salute, and a cheering crowd bearing placards saying, WELCOME LABORMAN . . . LIBERATOR OF GUINEA! Toure had made no secret of the fact that he wanted intimate ties with Ghana. But just how close those ties were to be came as a real surprise...
...regular policemen who were herded into the caravan of trucks one night last week knew nothing of their assignment: they were simply told that they were being moved out into the country. But as the trucks drove through the streets of Accra, the officers in charge would order them halted at certain houses, would declare that there was something strange going on inside, and would then march in and arrest the owner. Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah's Voice of Ghana told his people just what the mysterious roundup was all about. A plot, by something called the "Zenith Seven...
...democracy? For all his deportations and his juggling of the constitution (TIME, Nov. 17), Nkrumah had never before resorted to so drastic an action as the mass arrests-or trumped up a more questionable excuse. It so happened that the 43 included the entire executive committee of the Accra branch of the opposition party, and all but two of the 27 who opposed the government in the last municipal election. The exceptions: a man too old to make trouble, another already deported to Nigeria...