Word: kwame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thriving Western-oriented economy of the Ivory Coast and Senegal's traditional cultural leadership of French Africa, the OCAM represents 36 million Africans spread over one-fifth of the continent. One of its purposes: to offset the radical foreign policies of such hotheads as Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, create a new moderate center of gravity for the continent's politics...
...Stop distributing those papers!" roared Ghana's Information Minister Nathaniel Azaroc Welbeck, banging his gavel as if it were a shoe. Before him, in the auditorium of the Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute at Winneba, a fishing village west of Accra, the Fourth Afro-Asian Peoples Solidarity Conference sat assembled in sober splendor. But not in unity. Despite Nkrumah's keynote speech calling for brotherhood among all "anti-imperialist, anticolonialist, anti-neocolonialist and anti-racialist" movements, Conference Chairman Welbeck admitted sadly: "Some of the delegates are quarreling among themselves...
...inhabitants, whose yearly per capita income is only $50. Once part of French West Africa, Upper Volta gained its independence in 1960 and elected Yameogo, then 38, its first President. A staunch U.S. ally in the presence of such powerful anti-U.S. neighbors as Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, Yameogo did not come seeking more U.S. aid (Upper Volta gets about $1,000,000 a year), simply wanted to reassure Johnson that Upper Volta and the other moderate, new African nations continue to hold the U.S. in high esteem. For his pains, Yameogo received red-carpet treatment, including...
Last week four of the noisiest radicals - Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Sekou Toure of Guinea, Algeria's Ben Bella and Mali's Modibo Keita-met in the dusty West African capital of Bamako for an emergency conference to see what could be done. Answer: not much...
...world every year, catches up on sleep by snapping on a black eyeshade and stretching out on a bunk in the company plane. A confidant and partygoing pal of several world leaders, he has become the U.S.'s semi-official ambassador to Ghana's Red-leaning dictator, Kwame Nkrumah. He also finds time to serve on three U.S. presidential commissions and to supervise the nonprofit Kaiser Foundation Medical Plan, in which 1,200,000 members pay a monthly fee for the services of 1,000 doctors and 15 hospitals. Edgar used it to treat his ulcers, now cured...