Word: kwame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Waiter, peddler, porter, steward. Teacher, preacher, author, prude. Kwame Nkrumah has been them all in his long career, but you can't keep a good man down. Two years ago, as a letter or two of praise poured in for his latest published theories on African socialism, the Osagyefo (Redeemer) made himself permanent boss of his country. Apparently he found that he was not busy enough, for last week, at 55, Nkrumah began yet another career. Hearing rumors that two generals were gossiping about him, he decided that his army needed new leadership, began casting around...
...clear the way for the grandest conference of all, an Afro-Asian wingding. The affair, originally scheduled for Algiers in June, had to be postponed until Nov. 5 because of the overthrow of Ahmed ben Bella. But shortly after the new date had been set, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah suddenly put off his own spectacular−the 36-nation Organization of African Unity summit until Oct. 21, which was so close to the Algiers summit that many leaders might not be able to attend both. With a vast sum invested in an enormous modern conference hall and 65 presidential...
...Boumedienne is not at all sure how many African leaders will turn up. Last week his Foreign Minister, Abdel Aziz Bouteflika, was off on a recruiting tour of Africa's west coast. One of his first visits would be to Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, who could hardly be pleased by Algeria's sudden embargo on exported subversion. In fact, the Boumedienne regime was drawing fire from leftists all over the revolutionary lot. In Paris the Communist newspaper L'Humanite published a manifesto calling on Algerians to organize themselves into "clandestine cells" to "fight against the stranglers...
Most Fatuous by Far. Of all the striped-pants sorties, the most fatuous by far was launched by Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah. Amid great fanfare, Nkrumah sent Foreign Minister Alex Quaison-Sackey off to Washington with a personal letter for Lyndon Johnson. If U.S. officials were hoping for news of an important development, however, they were in for a letdown. Nkrumah, who expects to visit Hanoi soon, was chiefly interested in making sure that U.S. bombers would not turn his arrival into the wrong kind of reception blast. Patiently, L.B.J. assured the Ghanaians that "not a bomb...
...rebounded only 10 since then. Brazil, Cameroon, Togo and the Ivory Coast have been hurt, and Nigeria is paying its cocoa growers partly with promissory notes instead of money. Worst battered is Ghana, where cocoa produces 60% of the national income. Because of the price drop and Dictator Kwame Nkrumah's overly ambitious development schemes, the country is struggling with the severest economic crisis in its eight-year history. Factories in Accra are closing for lack of materials, and queues of shoppers form in the streets every morning for scarce butter, milk, rice, sugar, salt and drugs. Aggravating...