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...conference of all African leaders, with the modest aim of soberly exploring their common problems. As it turned out, the delegates who came to Monrovia represent a majority of independent Africans -some 95 million of free Africa's 186 million citizens. Significantly absent were the five obstreperous Casablanca powers: the U.A.R., Morocco, Guinea, Ghana and Mali (the Congo and South Africa were not invited). Originally, Guinea's Sekou Toure and Mali's Mobido Keita accepted. But Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, who destroys everything he cannot lead, talked them both out of going...
...Parade. The big cities quickly went into opposition. Socialists, trade unions and students railed against unemployment, grinding poverty, and the government's inability to provide decent housing in place of the fetid bidonvilles (shanty towns) surrounding Rabat, Casablanca and Port Lyautey. Hassan was accused of using the army for strike breaking, of being pro-French...
Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). "Sand and Snow" depicts the Casablanca conference, the Russian victory at Stalingrad, U.S. and British successes in North Africa...
Even as Nasser hobnobs with Africa's new political leaders at Casablanca and sends planes to supply Congolese revolutionaries, he is also driving to extend his influence southward through religion. Islam, with an estimated 88 million African followers, is the continent's biggest religion, far surpassing Christianity with its 34 million. Nasser is out to convince 75 million Africans who still worship old bush gods that Christianity is tainted with "imperialism," that Islam is the only faith fit for a free Africa. Says one Cairo tract, printed in Swahili and other African languages: "Christian missionaries preach one wife...
There was no rush to join. States as long independent as Ethiopia or as populous as Nigeria (40 million) are not eager to be camp followers of such newcomers as Ghana and Guinea. Similarly, the Casablanca conference made little appeal to the newly independent states of the French Community-one of which, Mauritania, fears attack by Morocco. Headed by Ivory Coast's President Félix Houphouet-Boigny, this group of nations prefers keeping their cultural and economic ties with France to adventures with Nkrumah or Nasser...