Word: kwame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congo rebellion. In fact, Red witchcraft is doing poorly in Africa. The only African country under outright Communist domination is the former colony of Congo-Brazzaville. Through hamhanded diplomacy and sloppy technology, the Russians alienated two of their likeliest converts, Guinea's Sekou Toure and Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah. China, usually more subtle in its subversive techniques, has also managed to stomp on African toes. Peking's men in Burundi were thrown out early this year after a Chinese subversion campaign that was climaxed by the assassination of Moderate Premier Pierre Ngendandumwe. During a recent visit...
...plan was to send a five-nation team, headed by Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson, to Hanoi, Saigon, Peking, Moscow and Washington to seek a way to end the war. The team's spread of political ideologies, ranging from the demagogic leftism of Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah through the balanced anti-Communism of Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, would seem to guarantee the group a hearing in every capital. After all, the argument ran, the Commonwealth speaks for a quarter of the world's population, hence represents a microcosm of world opinion...
...whose heads would roll the next time around. Chinese diplomats in Dar es Salaam, trying discreetly to recruit the Premier's next host, found that Guinea's Sékou Touré felt that a visit from Chou at this time might be "inconvenient." Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah was "too busy." Uganda, Zambia, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Nigeria were also not interested...
...which 99.44% of the electorate enthusiastically vote in favor of a single list of candidates* and b) a parliament consisting of party leaders and other carefully selected citizens who can be depended on to debate, then dutifully approve, the legislation put before it by the regime. Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, however, is an innovator; he has finally found a way to get the parliament without the election...
That struck a responsive chord, and Africa's former French dependencies played it repeatedly, with particular focus on the futile firebrand of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah. Charging that Nkrumah has bankrupted his nation for his own political ends, Upper Volta's President Maurice Yameogo drew cheers with his acid observation that "in Ghana you have to stand in line nowadays to buy a box of matches." Should Nkrumah lead a Pan-African government? Chortled Yameogo: "How can he expect to extend that to the rest of Africa when he has lost the allegiance of his own people...