Word: constitutionalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Two months ago. led by a young black strongman named Sekou Toure, Guinea became the only territory in French Africa to reject the constitution of Premier Charles de Gaulle. Last week Touré, threatened with the loss of all his economic ties with France, flew off to Ghana. Prime Minister...
Next steps: to draw up a common constitution and to invite other African states (mostly in French West Africa) to join the union, too. As a dowry, Nkrumah promised Guinea a credit of ?10 million. Both Prime Ministers agreed not to pass up any of the advantages their old colonial...
The Man Who surveyed the U.S. political landscape through a Democratic lens and liked what he saw. In the White House was a lame-duck Republican President, unbeatable in the past but barred by the Constitution from running again in 1960. Going up to Capitol Hill in January is a...
To the Association Wards. A curious silence settled over Ghana at the news. Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah has been having trouble holding together his young country (which got its independence from Britain in March 1957). As eager foster parents of the new nation, the British have generally sided with Nkrumah...
Jamaica is ready and willing to grant the concession, but Federal Prime Minister Sir Grantley Adams loudly objects. Under the constitution, Adams must run the federation on an income of $5,000,000, chipped in by the island members. When the federation is five years old, he will be able...