Word: imperialists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just two Americans (and non-Africans) present at Ghana's "emergency demonstration" against TIME'S alleged "imperialist cowboy propaganda" [at which a pile of copies of TIME was burned], may I offer a single additional comment to your Jan. 4 story...
...Nkrumah's independence campaign against Britain, begun back in the days when Ghana was the Gold Coast colony. "I wish to sound a note of warning," shouted Nkrumah, as the throng shrieked "eee-yah" in approval, "that the enemies of African freedom, namely the colonial powers and their imperialist collaborators, are planning hard to sabotage African unity . . . They are prepared to grant political independence, but are also planning to dominate the African territories in the economic and technical fields...
...imperialist cowboy propaganda" in TIME to which Nkrumah objected were articles in the Dec. 14 and Dec. 21 issues, particularly one story reporting the flouting of Nkrumah's wishes by Kenya's rising young (29) Tom Mboya, who formed a powerful new rival Pan-African labor group at a November meeting in Lagos, Nigeria, right in Nkrumah's own West Africa. As the evening progressed, it became clear that Mboya was what the vanguard activists were most upset about, and that TIME was guilty of capitalist intrigue when it "dared" compare Nkrumah and Mboya. "Through Kwame Nkrumah...