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...Second World War opened the flood gates for nationalist movements in Africa. Students who had studied abroad, men like the late Kwame Nkrumah, the late I.T.A. Wallace Johnson, Namdi Azikiwe and many other began to fan the flames of nationalist movements in the continent. African newspapers re-echoed the words--liberty, freedom and equality. The right for self-determination became the watch word for the nationalists. Before the end of the 1960's, many countries had become independent, and to many Africans, it was the dawn of a new era. The legislative and executive councils were replaced by parliaments. Expect...
...England, at the hub of the British Empire, that Robeson discovered Africa, and learned about the black Africans' struggle against European colonialism. He stayed up nights talking with Jomo Kenyatta and Kwame Nkrumah, who were then students in London. He also witnessed the rise of fascism in Italy and Germany at close range; in 1938 Robeson went to Spain and sang for anti-Franco International Brigade, and was named one of only three honorary members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. His political consciousness aroused and troubled by Franco, Hitler and African colonialism, Robeson began to look back across the Atlantic...
...although "I am entirely against Communism," he says, speaking of the Soviet system). Like many other third world students I interviewed, he expressed great admiration for Chinese "achievements, if not their government." Yet, abstract beliefs clash with immediate practicalities; Poku-Appiah says that military rule--which overthrew leftist President Kwame Nkrumah's regime in 1966--is the proper form of government for Ghana at present. The junta instills discipline: Poku-Appiah says an endemic problem in the Ghanaian bureaucracy is lateness for work, a crime which in the old days went unpunished. Now the offenders are drilled, required to march...
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...