Word: guineas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Offices employ batteries of experts, trade specialists, speechwriters and paper sorters who glory in their settled ways, nations rarely act any more on carefree impulse. Thus, international surprise was the first reaction to last week's merger of Ghana (formerly a British colony on the Gold Coast) with Guinea, which until two months ago was a French colony. The second reaction last week in London and Paris was shock...
With his artistic skill and interest growing, he graduated and took a course in education. Then he had to make a choice between taking a job with a London film company or returning to high school as a guinea pig in an art education program which was just getting under way in Natal...
...Rome and Cairo filed stories on the weird assault on the former Aga Khan's widow. In Ghana, a reporter was on hand to see what may prove to be the historic meeting between two of Africa's rising young leaders, the Prime Ministers of Ghana and Guinea, a unique merger of independent nations once British and French...
...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 Kwame Nkrumah was at the Accra airport with bands, a 21-gun salute, and a cheering crowd bearing placards saying, WELCOME LABORMAN . . . LIBERATOR OF GUINEA! Toure had made no secret of the fact that he wanted intimate ties with Ghana. But just how close those ties were to be came...
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 masters might still offer, with Ghana remaining in the British Commonwealth, and the republic of Guinea seeking ties with the new "French Community...