Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adoring masses of Ghana, Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah is "Showboy," and Guineans pay tribute to the strength of their President Sekou Toure by calling him "Elephant." But on the Ivory Coast (which lies between Ghana and Guinea, and wants no part of their merger), crowds have tagged their own strongman with the simple name of "Vive." The name could not be more apt: few men in the kaleidoscopic politics of French Africa have shown a greater talent for survival than 53-year-old Félix Houphouet-Boigny...
When the two men, "inspired by the example of the 13 American colonies," joined forces last November, scarcely a month had passed since Guinea cut itself loose from France. To Nkrumah, the union seemed an auspicious first step toward an eventual United States of Africa, and he promised a $28 million loan. Of this sum, $11 million has been paid-half of it just before Nkrumah's arrival. Otherwise, the union has been largely talk. Touré, the junior partner, has been moving off in some alarming directions...
Target No. 1. Out of concern for ruffled French feelings, the U.S. and Britain held off from recognizing Touré's independent state. Communist Bulgaria sent Guinea its first full-fledged ambassador. The Soviet Union followed soon after. By last week, things had gone so far that a U.S. State Department official grimly told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that Guinea had become Communism's No. 1 target in Africa. Touré has channeled at least a third of his total trade (chief exports: bananas, peanuts and coffee) to Eastern Europe...
...Martyrs." In the beginning, miffed at Guinea's lone vote of no to the De Gaulle constitution, Paris had been guilty of petty harassments. But since then, Paris has stood patiently by, ready to help, though annoyed by a new motto the Guineans inscribed on a monument dedicated to the dead of World War II: "To all the martyrs of colonialism...
Nkrumah, too, was obviously distressed by the turn events were taking in Guinea. Touré, though capable of cracking down on those in his entourage who seem to be getting too cozy with Eastern Europe, operates like a Marxist. The two leaders, conferring through interpreters (Nkrumah speaks English, Touré French, and they have no common African language), pledged themselves to find ways of "re-enforcing" their union. But actually they were far apart. While Ghana is so flush with its latest cocoa crop that it is embarking on a $930 million five-year development program, Guinea...