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...better start in African trade and aid, even with African Moslem nations. At one time, Israel had more diplomatic representation in Africa than all the Arab countries put together, still has trade missions at work all over. Israel trained Ghana's merchant fleet, helped develop Nigeria's water resources, Guinea's diamond mines, the construction industry in Liberia. Nasser's total aid to all of Africa: $7,000,000 to Somalia...
United Nations statistics reveal that 11 per cent of the entire Congolese population was receiving classroom education in 1958, the latest year for which accurate statistics are available. The figure compares with ten per cent for Egypt, 5.2 per cent for Nigeria and 4.6 per cent for Tanganyika. Only Ghana, with 12 per cent, sent a higher proportion of its people to school...
Round the green baize table in London's mirrored Lancaster House, Nkrumah. India's Nehru and Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa backed a proposal of Canada's Diefenbaker: they agreed not to press for a showdown on apartheid, provided that a communique permitted them to spell out. in general terms, their feelings about Verwoerd's racial policies...
...English-speaking South Africans were feeling vastly reassured, and panicky Afrikaner Nationalists recovered their courage. During the newsreel at a Johannesburg movie theater, the audience loudly applauded both Verwoerd and Britain's Macmillan, and was relaxed enough to roar with laughter at shots of Verwoerd shaking hands with Nigeria's black Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa...
...article in a recent issue of B.A.A.'s widely distributed Voice of Africa. Its author was John Tettegah, Redlining boss of Ghana's Trades Union Congress, who has sold Nkrumah on the idea of Communist-style unionism, and is trying to muscle in on union movements in Nigeria and other African countries. Another leftist at the top: Minister of Transport Krobo ("Crowbar") Edusei, who made a deal with Moscow for six Ilyushin airliners. Swirling uncertainly among the blacks is British Marxist Geoffrey Bing, who, as Nkrumah's Attorney General, designed the Preventive Detention Act under which more...