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...year as president of the United Nations General Assembly. Annie Jiagge was Ghana's first woman lawyer, judge and finally Supreme Court justice. She headed an investigation into the corruption of the Nkrumah era that has been hailed a landmark in African political reform and justice. Sophie Lihau-Kanza is one of the four chief ministers in President Joseph Mobutu's Congolese government; and Mrs. Olyn Williams, Sierra Leone's first female Permanent Secretary, is a champion of the cause of women in politics. "Men in government spend most of their time stealing," she snaps. "That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: African Women: From Old Magic To New Power | 8/31/1970 | See Source »

...Station. Negotiations started in Nairobi, under the auspices of Kenya's Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta, chairman of the Organization of African Unity's Congo Reconciliation Commission. Posturing in his orange sport shirt among the mangoes and moonflowers of Jomo's garden, the rebel "Foreign Minister," Thomas Kanza, presented his conditions: hostages would live if Tshombe's Congolese army immediately halted its drive toward the rebel capital. That was tantamount to demanding a legitimate government's surrender to the rebels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: The Congo Massacre | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

Continuing his description of this "new process of neo-colonialist methods," Kanza suggested that Moise Tshombe's soldiers had murdered Lumumba as soon as the arrested leader entered Katanga province. "It is impossible that Tshombe would allow his mortal enemy to escape," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kanza Discusses Congo 'Tragedy' | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

...Kanza added ruefully that when he arrived in New York last week a reporter asked him: "What do you think of the liberation of Lumumba ?" He replied at the time that the fate of Lumumba was in the U.N. Security Council's hands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kanza Discusses Congo 'Tragedy' | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

...Kanza maintained that the "last chance" of the U.S. in the Congo was to realign its policies along anti-colonialist "wave-lengths." He was cautious about evaluating the success of the U.N. in the Congo, saying only that Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold ought to ask himself, "Yes or No--did he follow the instructions of the Security Council...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kanza Discusses Congo 'Tragedy' | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

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