Word: kwame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boxes were marked with party symbols-a rooster for the Convention Peoples Party of Kwame Nkrumah, 47, for four years the self-governing colony's Prime Minister (TIME, Feb. 9, 1953); a cocoa tree for the National Liberation Movement, meant to dramatize charges of graft in the Nkrumah government's Cocoa Marketing Board. "What you need is an honest government," cried the leader of the N.L.M., "one whose hand is not always in the public pocket...
Dallied Long. The first official act was lunch with Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah. The conversation: almost solely Swiss Kriss, a herbal laxative that Louis discovered from reading Gayelord (yoghurt and molasses) Hauser, and recommended insistently to the Prime Minister and all his Cabinet. He dallied so long over his Benedictine and brandy that he was late for his afternoon concert...
...Such as India's Nehru, Eire's De Valera, South Africa's Smuts, Singapore's David Marshall, the Gold Coast's Kwame Nkrumah, many of whom spent time in British jails. Nkrumah campaigned wearing "PG" proudly on his cap, for "prison graduate...
People Without Patience. Houphouet-Boigny's idea of a new French Union is some variety of federation, and his model is Britain's neighboring Gold Coast, run by his fellow tribesman Kwame Nkrumah. But Houphouet-Boigny is well aware of the difficulties of providing "freedom" for a territory that is 13 times the size of France, divided among more than 1,000 tribes speaking 600 different tongues, many of them still so primitive that only five years ago a native elected to the French Senate was murdered and eaten by his Ivory Coast constituents. (Most tactless wisecrack...
Award for the cover story on Gold Coast Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah (TIME, Feb. 9, 1953). Fifteen months ago. Campbell moved to New Delhi after 17 years in Africa...