Word: kwame
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Despite these seemingly impressive gains, it is far from certain whether Moscow's African strategy will succeed. In the past decade the Soviets have suffered setbacks almost as dramatic as their gains. After the 1966 coup d'état in Ghana ousted Kwame Nkrumah, Moscow lost nearly all of the influence it had carefully cultivated with that country. The Soviets were also badly burned by changes of regime or mood in the Congo (now Zaïre) and, most notably, Egypt. In Mozambique, Moscow has lost out to the Chinese: Peking has been more generous with...
...Englishwoman's hero is Kwame Nkrumah, a former president of Ghana who was deposed by the army while he was away visiting Peking. She says that the military governments that have succeeded each other at one or two year intervals since Nkrumah's fall have done nothing. "He built what roads, hospitals, and schools there are, and the government is letting them fall apart. Ghana is being fed by the long-range planting projects Nkrumah started--almost anything will grow in this soil--but nobody is innovating any more...
...place, Africa must now contend heavily with the corporate imperialism which plagues its developing nations. The process of "decolonization" in Africa strengthened the incentives for large corporations to invest in the vast African resources which had previously been harbored by the European colonial governments. The African leader Kwame Nkrumah observed in 1965 that the "colonial preserves of European imperialism were opened up to American capitalism" by the decolonization of Africa...
Ever since the 1966 overthrow of Ghana's President and self-styled Osagyefo (Redeemer), the late Kwame Nkrumah, his once prosperous country has borne the burden of the $1 billion in foreign debts that Nkrumah left behind. When a group of army officers under Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheam-pong seized power last year, they decided to solve the problem by repudiating a $94 million obligation to Britain (on the grounds that it had been incurred through corruption) and by declaring an indefinite moratorium on much of the remaining debt. A few months later, Acheampong proclaimed Ghanaian control over...
...Died. Kwame Nkrumah, 62, deposed first President of Ghana and leader in Africa's anti-colonialism movement (see THE WORLD...