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Last week four of the noisiest radicals - Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Sekou Toure of Guinea, Algeria's Ben Bella and Mali's Modibo Keita-met in the dusty West African capital of Bamako for an emergency conference to see what could be done. Answer: not much...
Bequeathed by the British, Ghana's judicial system displays all the solemn trappings of the Old Bailey, complete with decorous courtrooms and gowned-and-wigged judges. Far higher than the law of the land is Osagyefo (Redeemer) and President Kwame Nkrumah...
Like his boss, Kwame Nkrumah, the "Redeemer" of Ghana, Quaison-Sackey espouses "positive neutrality," but he has a far less abrasive personality, and has spoken out against "Communist colonialism" as well as the Western variety. He winces at the abusive anti-Western jargon tossed around by hardcore African leftists, is affable and accessible (he once served as chairman and honorary drummer of an international jazz festival in Central Park...
...Cairo was getting the headlines, the conference in Cairo droned on. Nasser made a relatively reasonable plea that "peace in our time is indivisible." Indonesia's Sukarno, however, demanded "not coexistence but confrontation against Western imperialism." Most of the delegates went numbly along with Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, who blamed foreign plots rather than his own mismanagement for the fact that independence has not proved paradise...
Balkanized Continent. Tsiranana, of course, was denounced as a neocolonialist stooge. Next on the list of outspoken orators was Ghana's leftist Kwame Nkrumah. In a two-hour meander through his customary wood lot, the Redeemer threw some insights into Africa's darker thickets. As it now stands, he said, Africa consists of "economically unviable states, which bear no possibility of real development." Nkrumah warned against the continent's "Balkanized nationalism." All true enough, but Nkrumah's solution was his usual Pan-African panacea-a union government, with guess who as President...