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Middle Way. The Belgians are determined to hang on to their African treasure house. The task may not always be easy. The Congo lies between the all-black Gold Coast, where 4,500,000 Negroes are close to independence under Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, and unhappy South Africa, where Boer Prime Minister Johannes Strydom seems determined to enslave 9,000,000 Negroes for the benefit of 2,500,000 whites. Caught between, both geographically and psychologically, the Belgians are contemptuous of both black and white "extremes." They fear that South Africa's apartheid may spark race disorders that could...
...Premier Kwame Nkrumah, 45, the Gold Coast's U.S.-educated African wonder boy (TIME, Feb. 9, 1953), and his Convention People's Party won a thumping victory...
Born. To Enid Margaret ("Peggy") Cripps Appiah, 33, youngest daughter of the late Sir Stafford Cripps. Britain's austerity Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Joseph Manuel Appiah, 33, Ashanti law student and personal representative in Britain of the Africa Gold Coast's Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah: their first child, a son; in London. Weight: 8 lbs. 8 oz. Name: Kwame...
...rivals. It has students from the Virgin Islands, British Guiana, Kenya, Nigeria, the Gold Coast, the French Cameroons and Liberia, as well as from 22 states in the U.S. Of all its alumni, perhaps the two most notable are Africans: Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nationalist leader of Nigeria, and Kwame Nkrumah. Prime Minister of the Gold Coast (TIME, Feb. 9, 1953). Many of Lincoln's students have returned to their homelands with a better understanding of the great progress made by the U.S. Negro since the school was founded...
Last week the Prime Minister himself, U.S.-educated Kwame Nkrumah, the facile Twi tribesman whom Gold Coasters revere as "The Man," was summoned before a tribunal investigating malfeasance and graft. Scandal swirled around members of his Cabinet, and Nkrumah himself was hurt by it. From all over Africa came the mutters of hostile voices: "We told you so." The Blimps saw the scandal as proof that nature never intended that black men should govern themselves. Communists were delighted, for in the Gold Coast's troubles they saw an opportunity to discredit this best example of white colonialism peaceably surrendering...