Word: nkrumah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...things-his endorsement of Henry A. Wallace for President. Haughtily elegant, sporting a white goatee and pince-nez, he boasted of his French-Dutch-Negro mixed blood ("but, thank God, no Anglo-Saxon"), turned left with age, two years ago moved to Ghana to become director of the Nkrumah government-sponsored Encyclopedia Africana, and joined the Communist Party, apologizing for having been so "long and slow" in confirming his Red faith...
That sounds just about right to the U.S. and to many other countries. Hearing about the work of the Peace Corpsmen, one country after another has asked to be included in the program. Where Peace Corpsmen have already been sent, requests have come in for more. Even Nkrumah's Ghana, where government-run, Communist-lining newspapers still rail at the Peace Corpsmen as "agents of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency," the government itself has urgently requested that the 113-man Peace Corps contingent be doubled. In Nigeria, where poor Margery Michelmore caused all that commotion, the present group...
...Nkrumah for President. For all their camaraderie at Haile Selassie's party, not all the delegates to Africa's first "summit conference" last week were pals. Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba loathes Ghana's power-seeking Kwame Nkrumah who is jealous of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser who despises the Ivory Coast's Felix Houphouet-Boigny who in turn is contemptuous of Senegal's Poet-President Leopold Senghor...
...antagonisms became amply evident during the long oratory that flowed out of the conference work site, Haile Selassie's proud, new "Africa Hall." Eyes glittering, Nkrumah took the floor to demand "Unity Now!" in the form of a vast United States of Africa, ruled by a bicameral Congress and a strong presidency (which, no one doubted, Nkrumah feels himself eminently qualified to occupy). Nkrumah likened the Addis Ababa meet ing to the 1787 Constitutional Congress in Philadelphia, whose delegates, he said, thought of themselves not as "Virginians or Pennsylvanians, but simply Americans." Cried Ghana's self-styled Redeemer...
...text for African unity. Many of our states are not mature enough." Urging a slower, step-by-step approach, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, the able Prime Minister of Nigeria, Africa's most populous state (42 million, six times Ghana's population), took the opportunity to spank Nkrumah for his notorious meddling in his African neighbors' affairs. "Unity cannot be achieved as long as African countries continue subversion against others." Balewa declared. He drew a storm of cheers, and even Nkrumah's old friend. Modibo Keita of Mali, joined in to denounce "black imperialism." With the conference...