Word: hammadoun
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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...offer a fourth choice-independence-and the absence of this magic word set off predictable outcries among some African politicos. "France," said French West Africa Deputy Hammadoun Dicko, "must recognize our independence and not only our right to independence." After hearing a nationalist pep talk by Ghana's Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah ("Make first for independence, and you will get the rest!"), a meeting of African party leaders in Dahomey called upon France to help her territories form a "United States of Africa." De Gaulle apparently would have the West African territories separate states affiliated with France...
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