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...modest aim of soberly exploring their common problems. As it turned out, the delegates who came to Monrovia represent a majority of independent Africans -some 95 million of free Africa's 186 million citizens. Significantly absent were the five obstreperous Casablanca powers: the U.A.R., Morocco, Guinea, Ghana and Mali (the Congo and South Africa were not invited). Originally, Guinea's Sekou Toure and Mali's Mobido Keita accepted. But Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, who destroys everything he cannot lead, talked them both out of going...
...ranking colleagues announcing a new and violent stage in Africa's struggle, fashioned on the model of Algeria's F.L.N. rebels. For the moment, declared the remarkable document, Ghana would have to share leadership of the new Africa with such ambitious states as the U.A.R., Guinea and Mali, but their influence is destined to wane, in the long run, as Ghana's star rises. The new phase of the liberation movement, the paper went on, will receive its "inspiration" and "arms" from the Soviet Union-flowing through Accra to the rest of Africa...
...Kwame Nkrumah had a warm hug for the visitor before the two drove down crowd-lined highways to a physical-fitness rally at Accra Stadium. In Conakry, Guinean girls danced in the streets, cheering wildly as Tito waved from his open car; and in Bamako, capital of little neutralist Mali, school children chanted: "We are Tito's. Tito is ours...
There have been some encouraging results: the Nigerian ambassador has finally found a suitable embassy; the ambassador of Mali, previously frustrated in his attempt, can now establish a chancery in a selected residential zone. But the struggle continues. Says one State Department official: "Our job is to assure that foreign policy is carried out by the President and State Department and not impaired by the actions of a barber on Connecticut Avenue or a restaurant owner in Maryland...
Most of the Soviet aid will go for more or less worthy development projects, including preliminary work on a railway line and help in exploiting Mali's largely unexplored deposits of iron, gold and phosphates. But, as usual, the Soviet aid package includes one project that is purely for show: a football stadium for Mali's isolated capital of Bamako...