Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moreover, Nixon kept a weather eye on U.S. diplomatic and information people in African countries. He made no bones about the fact that some of them did not seem to live up to his standards. After a meeting with one high-ranking officer he complained: "How can we expect to get things done over here with cornballs like that?" Too many U.S. diplomats, he decided, were putting too much stock in pomp and form, too little in the kind of U.S. they were supposed to represent...
Almost next door to the new Gold Coast state of Ghana lies a far bigger British colony working toward independence. Last week in Eastern Nigeria, one of the three great regions of Britain's West African colonial protectorate, Premier Nnamdi Azikiwe (known as "Zik") won a decisive election on the wrong side of a scandal...
...issue was Zik's handling of the funds of the African Continental Bank, which he controls. Last January a tribunal headed by Nigeria's Chief Justice found that Zik, in his function as Premier, had transferred public money, equivalent to one quarter of the 1955-56 revenue of the Eastern Region of Nigeria, to his own bank, thereby saving it from collapse. "Guilty of misconduct as a minister," declared the tribunal. Advised the far-off London Times: "He should resign and, in so far as it is possible, make restitution. He can then ask the people to give...
West Virginia's Storer College) seriously thought of quitting. Then he began to hear the voice of the people, and found himself regarded as a hero. Shrewdly he called a general election, selflessly offered the British Colonial Office all his shares in the African Continental Bank (the Colonial Office politely declined), and hit the stump. While tireless British colonial officials went into the jungle to persuade 3,000,000 eligible voters to register, and to show them how to cast their ballots, whispers went forth that the tribunal had been an "imperialist plot" to discredit the Nigerian nationalist movement...
...Black Star Rises (Sun. 5 p.m., CBS). A report on Vice President Nixon's visit to seven African nations...