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...Africa's successful revolutionaries and moderate nation builders. Ghana's egocentric Osagyefo (Redeemer), Kwame Nkrumah, was due in from Accra. From the Congo would come the embattled Premier Cyrille Adoula. Also on the list: Nigeria's able Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa; Senegal's Senghor; Guinea's Sekou Toure; and dozens more, including, of course, that affable fellow from up north, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, who was an African of a kind...
Nigeria has survived to become Africa's most conspicuously successful democracy. Its birth pangs were eased by a long tradition of tribal government, and by the solid good sense of many African leaders whom the British groomed for self-rule-notably its federal Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (TIME cover, Dec. 5, 1960). The greatest single assurance of stability has been Nigeria's tripod form of government, designed to prevent any one region from dominating the other two. That system is now in jeopardy, and with it the very future of Nigeria as a democracy...
...contributors, including West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer ("The German Problem. A World Problem"), Anthropologist Margaret Mead ("The Underdeveloped and the Overdeveloped"), Guinea's leftist President Sékou Touré ("Africa's Future and the World"). Nigeria's West-leaning Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa ("Nigeria Looks Ahead"), General Lucius D. Clay, with a plea for a strong policy on Berlin...
...happened and has assessed the development in a wide range of major pieces, including cover stories on Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah. Guinea's President Sékou Touré, Kenya's Independence Leader Tom Mboya, Nigeria's Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, and Katanga's secessionist President Moise Tshombe. This week TIME wraps it all up in a brief but thorough guide to the cultural, political and economic state of 27 countries in the new Africa...
Exports: Cocoa, palm products, peanuts. Per capita income: $88. U.S. aid (1961): $13,200,000. Moderate Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa holds together three disparate regions and 250 tribes that lack a truly national outlook. G.N.P. has soared 50% (to $3 billion) in decade...