Word: forli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In one cell they put the old and broken toys that had been collected-dolls without arms or legs, bicycles without wheels, Teddy bears without eyes. They made tiny wooden doll furniture, welded miniature sports cars, restuffed drooping Pinocchios. Gradually, the cell with the old toys emptied, while the one...
A year ago, young Tom Mboya from Kenya was the toast of Accra, enjoying the benevolent patronage of that would-be leader of emerging Africa, Ghana's Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah himself. The principal difference between the two men is that Nkrumah is the unchallenged boss of an independent...
This was not to be; last week Nkrumah's obedient press in Ghana was lambasting Mboya as being a "stooge of imperialism" and "under the thumb of the Americans." The reason: Mboya had dared to challenge Nkrumah in the race for leadership of the budding trade-union movement in...
Last May, Mboya called a conference in Lagos, Nigeria, almost next door to Nkrumah, to form the first All-Africa I.C.F.T.U. labor organization. Ghana stalled for months before replying, finally sent word that the idea of a conference was all right, but that it should be held in Accra, "capital...
Within 24 hours of Lloyd's declaration, which had been foreshadowed by the signing of a financial agreement in Cairo earlier this year, an irritating little incident rubbed open old wounds. Cairo's newspaper Al Ahram blandly reported that a museum would be made out of the Port...