Word: keita
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Haile Selassie offered to serve as chairman of a truce meeting in Tunis including Hassan, Ben Bella and one of the unlikeliest political fraternities ever gathered outside the U.N. cocktail lounge-Egypt's Nasser, Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba, Libya's King Idriss, Mali's Modibo Keita, and Guinea's Sekou Toure...
That crowd was too big for Hassan, who proposed a cozier group to meet in Bamako, Mali, with President Keita, Emperor Haile Selassie and Ben Bella. Although Algeria finally agreed, neither side seemed particularly eager to settle the war, because the political benefits of patriotic fervor were considerable. Ben Bella was drafting all his unemployed into the army, and Hassan's own domestic opposition faded, at least temporarily, while crowds cheered him and kissed his hands...
...Ghana's population), took the opportunity to spank Nkrumah for his notorious meddling in his African neighbors' affairs. "Unity cannot be achieved as long as African countries continue subversion against others." Balewa declared. He drew a storm of cheers, and even Nkrumah's old friend. Modibo Keita of Mali, joined in to denounce "black imperialism." With the conference obviously in no mood for grandstanding, Egypt's ubiquitous Gamal Abdel Nasser prudently confined himself to generalities...
...difference between nationalists appear sharply in the discussions of the single-party state based "on a populist identification of leader, party, and people." On the one hand, several writers defend one-party rule as necessary and democratic. Speaking in Paris in early 1960; Madeira Keita, Mali's radical Minister of Defense, argued that since the objectives of the African people are "common ones and we are in agreement on methods, we must create a single party. It is necessary to create a single party to be efficient...and not to give aid to colonialism...We must have the unified party...
...done, France is expected to come across with the cash. As an exporter of peanuts and beef (its cattle are north of Africa's tsetse fly zone), self-sufficient in rice and other staples, Mali just might make the grade, despite the Marxist trappings. In any case, Modibo Keita, like many another African leader, is still open to suggestion on which ideology is best...