Word: kwame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Would His High Dedication, Kwame Nkrumah, toast Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth? This question of protocol stirred official Accra last week on the eve of the Queen's eleven-day visit. Truculently anti-British, Nkrumah's advisers have claimed that if Osagyefo (the Redeemer) were to lift his glass to the Queen, he would compromise his standing as the only ruler of Ghana. Already the word has gone out to the Ghanaian press to stop referring to the British sovereign as "the Queen," which implies her sovereignty over Ghana, but to call her "Queen Elizabeth II," which classifies...
...called "neutralists" who actually follow the Communist line, the U.S. has become especially wary of Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah. Last week President Kennedy assigned retired Steelman Clarence B. Randall, 70, to visit Ghana for "a final hard look" at Nkrumah's request for U.S. aid on the Volta River Project...
...High Dedication is the latest title given Kwame Nkrumah by his admirers, who once were content with Osagyefo, or Redeemer. By whatever title, Nkrumah is in bad trouble, and so is his country. Ghana, a little land once rich with promise, is slipping fast toward financial failure and harsh dictatorship. Thanks to Nkrumah's reckless spending, hard currency reserves are half what they were four years ago. And thanks to the pressure of left-wing extremists around him, Nkrumah is inching closer to the brink of Communist control of the country he led to independence...
Ugly Little Bill. What Kwame Nkrumah really discovered, when he got back home from his heady talks with Nikita Khrushchev and his glittering attendance at the Belgrade parley of the neutralist nonbloc, was the looming failure of his dream of a Nkrumah-controlled Pan African empire. His influence in the Congo had fallen away, and the expensive Ghana-subsidized alliance with Sékou Toure's Guinea and Modibo Keita's Mali was getting him nowhere. Moreover, the day was fast approaching when Ghana's dwindling exchequer would have to put up $226 million for the ambitious...
...Kwame Nkrumah now seemed as much a prisoner of his leftist colleagues as he was of his own Pan African dreams. There was only one way out-more bluster. When word trickled into Accra that Washington was pausing to reconsider its offer of the U.S.'s $133 million Volta River loan. His High Dedication fired off a letter to President Kennedy asking for a decision by Oct. 13. But only irigid silence came out of Washington; hastily, Nkrumah got off a second letter. Take your time, wrote Nkrumah reassuringly last week. Somehow, he had found a way to extend...