Word: kwame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more stridently denounces South Africa's violations of human rights than Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah. Last week he dispatched a recorded diatribe to an anti-apartheid rally in London, whose participants protested the law under which South African citizens may be jailed for interminably repeated 90-day stretches. The very next day Nkrumah armed himself with a measure that makes the South African statute look pale by comparison...
Nkrumah for President. For all their camaraderie at Haile Selassie's party, not all the delegates to Africa's first "summit conference" last week were pals. Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba loathes Ghana's power-seeking Kwame Nkrumah who is jealous of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser who despises the Ivory Coast's Felix Houphouet-Boigny who in turn is contemptuous of Senegal's Poet-President Leopold Senghor...
...Slap for Kwame. There was polite applause, but much of the audience was lukewarm to the ambitious scheme. Malagasy's President Philibert Tsiranana replied candidly: "You cannot decree a text for African unity. Many of our states are not mature enough." Urging a slower, step-by-step approach, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, the able Prime Minister of Nigeria, Africa's most populous state (42 million, six times 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...
...guest list was a Who's Who of Africa's successful revolutionaries and moderate nation builders. Ghana's egocentric Osagyefo (Redeemer), Kwame Nkrumah, was due in from Accra. From the Congo would come the embattled Premier Cyrille Adoula. Also on the list: Nigeria's able Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa; Senegal's Senghor; Guinea's Sekou Toure; and dozens more, including, of course, that affable fellow from up north, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, who was an African of a kind...
...Kwame Dan Walker '66, and Robert E. Wright '65 were named at-large members of the executive committee, and Thomas Atkins 2G was appointed editor in chief of the AAAA publication...