Word: kwame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discuss solidarity among the emerging states of Africa. But from the very first session in Addis Ababa's modern, glass-roofed Parliament Hall, the angry squabbling showed that the fond dream of unity was still a myth. Nigeria's Maitama Sule attacked Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah, who dreams of himself as the leader of a united Africa. "If anyone makes the mistake of feeling he is a messiah who had a mission to lead Africa," cried Sule, "the whole purpose of Pan-Africanism will be defeated. Hitler thought he had a mission...
Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah was resisted every inch of the way by the Ashanti chiefs who clearly foresaw the loss of their power in a single nation run from Accra. In Nigeria, the ancient feud between the Yoruba of the west and the Ibo of the east, and their joint contempt for the Moslems in the north, is a major obstacle to peaceful nationhood. Kenya's warlike Masai dread the thought of national power in the hands of the clever Kikuyu; and for the majestic (6 ft. 6 in.) but backward Watutsi of Ruanda-Urundi, education...
Macmillan. he demanded: "What about the Netting Hill troubles here?" India's Jawaharlal Nehru and Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, displaying considerable restraint, tried to reason with Louw. So did Malaya's Tengku Abdul Rahman, who had precipitated a crisis by walking out on a meeting with Louw during the first week of the conference. Even Australia's Prime Minister Robert Menzies, originally sympathetic to Louw's problems, gave up in the face of his intransigence. At a meeting of London's South Africa Club. Louw said the other Prime Ministers had greeted him with...
...Danquah, the recognized elder statesman of Ghana politics, was campaigning for independence when Nkrumah was still an unknown student studying at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. Danquah, a lawyer trained at London's Inner Temple and a sociologist with several books to his credit, brought Kwame Nkrumah back to Ghana to become organizing secretary of the nationalist movement. Nkrumah promptly displaced Danquah as the nationalist leader and, over the years, has nearly decimated the United Party, whose seats in Parliament have dwindled from 32 to 13 through the imprisonment of some legislators and the expedient switch in allegiance of others...
...week's end these tactics gave Kwame Nkrumah and his new constitution an unbeatable 8-1 lead. Said defeated Dr. Joseph Danquah: "I am beginning to feel ashamed of the things that are being done here in the name of democracy...