Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Every African," said Ghana's Minister of Information, "loves 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...
...conspirators," and the Paris press was openly gloomy about the future of France's former territories, two more of which-the rich Ivory Coast and little Dahomey-last week chose autonomy within the French community. Said Le Figaro solemnly: "A grim race is joined between the French-African community and the countries who swirl in the orbit of 'positive neutralism...
Tracking Far. Electronic tracking told the rest of the story: Atlas coursed over an ocean at 16,000 m.p.h.. past the equator, past Ascension island, to a point near St. Helena, where the exiled and imprisoned Napoleon died, until, only 1,200 miles from the African coast and only 30 minutes after launching, its nose cone shot down into the South Atlantic. The distance: a fully programed 6,300 statute miles, equal to the span between Denver and Peking, or between an Alaskan launching site and any major target in the Northern Hemisphere. Thus, after only 17 months...
...Freedom. Guinea was the only French African territory to vote no in September to De Gaulle's constitution. The French territories that voted yes are one by one declaring themselves republics, inside the French community. Following Madagascar, which made its choice in October, the French Sudan and Senegal led last week's parade. Next came a proclamation of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, in the land of the great Berber warriors who established the medieval Almoravide empire and built the fabled city of Marrakesh. Then to the east there followed tropical Gabon, the mineral-rich Republic of Congo...
Returning home from Ghana, Guinea's Marxist-trained Premier Sékou Touré told cheering crowds in his capital of Conakry that the union was merely the beginning of "the dream of all African democrats-that of a United States of Africa." The enthusiasm was not unanimous. Premier Sylvanus Olympic of Togoland, a French U.N. trusteeship slated for independence in 1960; would like to join "an eventual federation," but was careful to add that this "will certainly not be easy." Poor Togoland could all too easily end up as a Ghana province, and some of its politicians...