Word: kwame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Instant Unity? As the conference got under way last week, Ghana's "Redeemer," Kwame Nkrumah, offered his usual proposal for instant Pan-African unity, was instantly cold-shouldered by most of the delegates, who realize that though federation is a fine hope for the future, it cannot work now. The grand items on the agenda promised the customary condemnation of Africa's remaining white-dominated nations, a pledge to tighten the existing boycott on the Union of South Africa, and plenty of high-flown words on the benefits of pulling together...
...interesting to note that in the photograph of Kwame Nkrumah he is holding aloft an egg. This is one of his favorite symbols, "the egg of power." If one holds it too lightly, it will drop and smash; if one holds it too hard, it will break in one's hand. Osagyefo, of course, says that he knows exactly how to hold...
...preconditions needed a third, however, to make Tanganyika a successful independent state. That ingredient-leadership-is provided by Julius Nyerere. A slender, soft-eyed man with a Chaplinesque mustache, Nyerere is the antithesis of most African leaders. Where others affect high-flown nicknames like "Redeemer" (Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah) or "Lion of Malawi" (Nyasa-land's Kamuzu Banda), Nyerere is content to be known as Mwalimu-Swahili for teacher. Where other leaders use their high-powered, government-owned radios for propaganda messages, Nyerere uses his to broadcast casual eco nomic lessons. Recently he translated Shakespeare's Julius...
...expected, Ghana voted overwhelmingly to convert to a one-party "socialist" state. Also as expected, the final returns were no sooner in last week than Dictator Kwame Nkrumah embarked on a fresh purge of his opposition and a stepped-up campaign against...
...that sizable herd of Osagyefo-worshippers who received fresh inspiration from the Ghanaian Times writer who recently confessed: "I shudder when I think of the greatness of the Great One. And so let the world know, and the word go forth, that indeed we do have a miracle called Kwame Nkrumah who walks the face of Africa today...