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...arms, Jeeps and heavy equipment from both East and West, though it involved the expensive and inefficient process of duplicate stockpiling of spare parts and duplicate training of troops. As a first step toward his dream of Pan-African leadership, Nkrumah laid out $21 million in loan commitments to Mali and Guinea. Further draining the treasury were such lavish expenditures as $3,000,000 for facelifting the ancient (1661) Danish-built Christiansborg Castle, Nkrumah's new presidential palace; another $3,000,000 for Accra's Black Star Square, where Nkrumah can rant about his brand of socialism...
...often vicious or childish anti-Western overtones, but this does not necessarily mean that these new countries are going Communist. Moscow may find it difficult to bind this willful, unpredictable force to a Soviet-made troika, even in the cases of such left-leaning states as Ghana, Guinea and Mali, which sent "observers" to the Communist Party Congress. Nigeria, the most stable former colony south of the Sahara, and the Brazzaville group of twelve former French territories are especially suspicious of Red intentions. The Congo, once Moscow's sharpest spearhead in Africa, may be inching toward stability even though...
...blandishments by the Soviet bloc, "which conveniently ignores conditions existing in Hungary and in the Soviet Union's occupied or colonial territories." Added Louw: "The ruler of Ghana is flirting with Moscow and Peking. Guinea, soon after being given its independence, promptly became a disciple of Moscow. Mali appears to be going the same way." He also pointed out-accurately-that living conditions in the continent's two oldest black states, Ethiopia and Liberia, are "appalling," and added a needling reminder to other Africans that their contributions to the U.N. budget constitute a mere...
...Belgrade parley of the neutralist nonbloc, was the looming failure of his dream of a Nkrumah-controlled Pan African empire. His influence in the Congo had fallen away, and the expensive Ghana-subsidized alliance with Sékou Toure's Guinea and Modibo Keita's Mali was getting him nowhere. Moreover, the day was fast approaching when Ghana's dwindling exchequer would have to put up $226 million for the ambitious Volta River power and aluminum project, if the U.S. and the World Bank went ahead with their part of the deal...
Moral Confusion. The most striking example of what Shen was talking about came from Mali's Borema Bocoum, who invoked "objectivity and realism" to demand that Red China be "restored to its proper place in the U.N.," then protested that any proposal for free elections in East Germany is "spurious" and "designed to breed confusion in people's minds." In a classic example of nonaligned non sequitur, Bocoum proclaimed: "The idea of self-determination is valid only for peoples who are fighting for their independence and sovereignty...