Word: guineas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Sekou Toure is concerned, French-speaking Guinea and English-speaking Ghana have been "one country" ever since he and Kwame Nkrumah swore their eternal togetherness in 1958. When Nkrumah was toppled from power, therefore, it seemed the honorable thing to call for 50,000 Guinea volunteers to march into Ghana and restore "the Redeemer" to his throne. Trouble was that to get there, Sekou's soldiers would have had to march 250 miles through an entirely different country, the Ivory Coast, whose President Félix Houphouet-Boigny called out his own 3,000-man army to repel...
...greeted by a 21-gun salute-and the ridiculous announcement that he had become "President and Party Chairman" of Guinea. "From today and even tomorrow and the day after tomorrow," declared Sekou, "whenever there is a heads-of-state conference, he who speaks in the name of Guinea can be no other than the comrade and brother Kwame Nkrumah...
...news from Guinea that the Ghanaian ambassador and his staff were being held under house arrest during Nkrumah's visit, Ankrah broke relations with Sékou Touré. He re-established the relations Nkrumah had broken off with Britain, which returned the compliment by recognizing his regime (as did the U.S. last week). Ankrah also closed up The Redeemer's guerrilla training camps with the curt announcement that Ghana's "days of harboring political refugees to subvert other states are over." Then he ordered 900 Russian and 200 Chinese "advisers" to leave the country...
...rebel regime. It did not work out that way. No sooner had the delegates from 36 nations gathered in Addis Ababa's Africa Hall than they fell to squabbling about Ghana's deposed Kwame Nkrumah, an advocate of direct African military action against the Rhodesians. Guinea, Mali, Tanzania and Egypt all stomped out of the conference when it was decided to seat a Ghanaian delegation representing the new Accra government. After that, Algeria, Somalia, Kenya and the Brazzaville Congo followed suit...
...fairly obvious that military coups in Africa, now that the precedent has been set, are only beginning, and any number of nervous politicians are wondering whether they will be the next to fall. One obvious candidate is Guinea, where leftist President Sékou Touré has all but disenfranchised the majority Foulah tribesmen, and is making an even greater mess of his economy than Kwame Nkrumah did in Ghana. Another is Niger, which has grown sullen and restive after Hamani Diori's eight years of corruption and mismanagement. Strife between northerners and southerners keeps tension high in Senegal...