Word: nkrumah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spontaneous but instigated from the outside, reported that army troops had captured 71 well-armed Ghanaian guerrillas fighting alongside the rebels. Rebel leader Holden Roberto, who directs the rebellion from his Leopoldville headquarters, has insisted that his U.P.A. has not had help from Ghana, professes to scorn Nkrumah as too leftist. But Ghana and Guinea have fostered a rival Communist-dominated group called the Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.), and Nkrumah's meddlesome African Affairs Bureau has openly boasted of its efforts to foment rebellion in Angola...
...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...
...Dean's eighteen leaders, ten--Khrushchev, Tito, Ben Gurion, Nasser, Nehru, Sukarno, Mao Tse-tung, Bourguiba, Nkrumah and Castro--will be familiar to most of her readers, although she adds a good deal of depth and illumination with extensive citation of the statesman's own writings. The others, two of them dead but still influential, less well-known, or at least less obvious selections...
...least six other Soviet ships docked in darkness at Takoradi in the same week, suggesting that Nkrumah is building up supplies to expand his gunrunning activities all along Africa's west coast, for Nkrumah's own army already has all the arms it can use (supplied largely by Britain). One likely intended recipient is the Congo's Antoine Gizenga, the Red-lining rebel in Stanleyville, who as Lumumba's Vice Premier is recognized by the Communist bloc (and Ghana) as the Congo's legitimate ruler. Only last month, Nkrumah talked publicly of restoring the "balance...
Secret Aims. Nkrumah's goal is to see his own banner waving over an entire continent. Circulating among Nkrumah's Cabinet last week was a secret policy paper drafted by one of his highest-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...