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...Telecaster Edward R. Murrow discovered one place he had missed: the land of his ancestors, Central Africa. The entertainment possibilities were just too colorful to miss, so CBS shelled out some $25,000 to send Armstrong, his five-man All-Stars and a camera crew to the city of Accra, the Gold Coast, for a three-day junket. The results were as good as expected. "After all," explained Louis, "my descendants came from here...
...there a solution to the South African dilemma? Gunther saw none, but he found hope elsewhere on the troubled continent-notably in British West Africa, where the hustling rival colonies of Gold Coast and Nigeria are driving hard toward independence. In Accra, the Gold Coast capital, he attended a debate in the Legislative Assembly and found it "far above the usual level of the House of Representatives." Gunther considers that the British rule Africa best. Though on the whole they provide jess economic opportunity than the Belgians, less racial equality than the French, they give the African "copious access...
...affect a reporter was described recently by a newspaperman in Northern Rhodesia. Said he: "It sometimes seems that the home office of every newspaper and news agency is equipped with schoolroom atlases which have maps of Africa neatly squeezed into one page. News editors look at the map, see Accra within six inches of Northern Rhodesia, and send off a breezy query...
Campbell's answer to my query began: "I'm typing this while flying on a plane from Johannesburg to Accra. Three days ago I was on the east coast of Africa, in Nairobi. To ' go from Nairobi to Accra via Johannesburg may seem like a roundabout way, but actually it's the quickest. To fly straight across would have meant hanging around the Belgian Congo for air connections. There is no good east-west trans-Africa air schedule...
...going to run the story . not much interest . too far away." (Six hours later, Campbell was on a plane bound for neighboring Uganda to report the story (TIME, Dec. 14.) Adds Campbell: "The Sudanese are not peculiar in their indifference to affairs beyond their borders. When you are in Accra, it is almost impossible to discover what is happening next door in Nigeria. When you move over to Lagos, you might be on another planet from Accra. Almost no news comes out of the Belgian Congo, French Africa or Portuguese Africa. If you want to find out what is happening...