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...emerging leaders of Africa are as pretentious as Ghana's Nkrumah or as meddlesome as Egypt's Nasser. Across the continent from Casablanca, Tanganyika's Chief Minister Julius Nyerere sat in his sun-splashed and flyspecked capital of Dar es Salaam and contentedly contemplated his steady progress toward the day when Britain's East African possessions-his own mandated Tanganyika, plus Uganda and Kenya to the north and the offshore islands of Zanzibar-will be able to form a self-governing, independent Federation of East Africa...
...Anglo-Saxon'' racialism Waugh expresses intense distaste, and the tragic Lobengula, last king of the Matabele. for whom he has intense admiration. And there is a truly Waugh-like figure. "Bishop" Homer A. Tomlinson of New York, self-styled "King of the World," whose self-coronation in Dar-es-Salaam. Tanganyika, with the aid of a plastic terrestrial globe, was witnessed by an awed Waugh-the fictioneer outdone by the actually absurd...
...Senegal's President Léopold Sédar Senghor and Premier Mamadu Dia, Niger's President Hamani Diori, the Upper Volta's President Maurice Yameogo, Dahomey's Premier Hubert Maga, Mauritania's President Mocktar and Ould Daddah, Cameroun's President Ahmadou Ahidjo, plus ministers plenipotentiary of the Central African Republic, Gabon and Chad. But Mali sent only an observer; Togo, currently feuding with Houphouet-Boigny, did not attend...
...Party in the drive for African rule. At first a fiery radical, Edinburgh University-trained Nyerere (pronounced Nyuh-ray-ree) grew more moderate when the British authorities agreed to a multiracial government. "Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way," he preached from his modest bungalow in Dar es Salaam. But his goal never changed: "The African must and will rule. Our unity is our weapon." Relieved to find a leader with such common sense, the British in December agreed to "responsible" government with an African legislative majority in Tanganyika for a four-year transition period, after which...
...fleet dropped anchor in the Bay of Tunis, and Ike and his party buzzed by helicopter to the Tunis suburb of La Marsa, just north of the old Punic ruins of Carthage. There, on a small asphalt lot, 500 yards from the presidential summer and guest palace Dar es Saada ("House of Happiness"), Ike shook hands with Tunisia's stubby, vigorous President Habib Bourguiba. In his warm words of welcome, Bourguiba put in a plug for anticolonialism. "This visit," said he, "will bring high hope and promise to the peoples of Africa fighting a decisive battle for human dignity...