Word: ghanian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want to be ourselves. We like influences from the West, we like influences from the West, we like influences from the East, but first we want to be ourselves," Nana Nketsia, Ghanian Ambassador to the United Nations, told a Quincy House audience last night...
Speaking at the first meeting of Quincy's Africa forum, Nketsia drew on the writing of two centuries of Ghanian authors and half a millenium of his country's history as he traced the disastrous contribution of Europe's past errors to the present problems of Africa...
Nana Nketsia, head of the Ghanian delegation to the United Nations, will speak in the first forum of the Quincy House Africa series on "Culture and Nationalism" at 8 p.m. this evening in Quincy dining room...
Other nations contributed. Britain's R.A.F. flew in 850 troops: Ethiopia airlifted some 600 of its 1,000 troops in its own air transports. Even Russia got in on the act, sent three turboprop Ilyushin transports to ferry Ghanian troops from Accra to the Congo.* But overall, it was overwhelmingly a U.S. show. U.S. planes brought in 75% of the troops, 19 of every 20 tons of supplies...