Word: kwame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ignominious Tow. The conference did not begin with the kind of nourish the principals hoped for. Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana and his two satellites, Sekou Toure of Guinea and Mobido Keita of Mali, started a day late from the leafy Guinean capital of Conakry. Ferhat Abbas, President of the "provisional" F.L.N. rebel government of Algeria, took off from Spain in a chartered plane, but had to turn back because of mechanical difficulties. Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of the United Arab Republic and the canniest professional of the lot, was en route by sea in his official yacht Al Hurriyah (Freedom...
...words ringing in his ears, Nasser sent cultural missions to all the new black nations and appointed vigorous Ambassador Murad Ghaleb as Cairo's man on the board of the Congo's informal Diplomatic Society for the Preservation of Patrice Lumumba. But last week, soon after Kwame Nkrumah's Ghanaian charge d'affaires was thrown out on his ear for overzealous tinkering in local affairs, the Congo's President Kasavubu bluntly invited Nasser to withdraw the U.A.R.'s plotting Ghaleb and staff as well. Astonished at this ingratitude, Nasser turned to an old Cairo...
Ferment at Home. Uninterested in politics, Abubakar stuck to his books, never met such hot-eyed young nationalists as Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah and Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, who were also in London then. When the BBC sought a Nigerian to read Nigeria's new 1946 constitution on its overseas service, Abubakar willingly took the job but had, he later confessed, not the slightest idea what the document he had read was all about...
...immediately, Abubakar bluntly told him: "As a diplomat, you must understand that things are not done that way. You must submit an application for diplomatic relations, and we shall judge it on its merits.") Above all, the extremists are shocked that Abubakar can barely conceal his contempt for showboating Kwame Nkrumah and his schemes for Pan-African unification, instead urges that for the time being, African cooperation be limited to such practical steps as technical and cultural exchanges, a common U.N. front and, perhaps, economic agreements...
Wisps from the Pipe. The hassle was an old story to the U.N. staff in Leéopoldville. Brawny, racist-minded Diplomat Welbeck, once Kwame Nkrumah's top political skull-basher back in Ghana, had long been one of Léopoldville's biggest troublemakers. At Nkrumah's bidding, he shot about the Congolese capital lining up all possible support for Colonel Mobutu's archfoe, deposed Premier Patrice Lumumba, and was helped in his endeavors by the curious policy of the U.N. Command's Rajeshwar Dayal who offered U.N. protection to virtually everyone save working...