Word: nkrumah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...develop our natural resources," says Sir Milton, adding pointedly, "and we would like to look first to our old friends." Firmly pro-Western, Margai has already made Sierra Leone the twelfth member of the Commonwealth. Conspicuously absent from the festivities were his left-leaning neighbors, Ghana's Nkrumah and Guinea's Toure. The chief opposition party is heavily backed by Nkrumah, and when its leaders threatened to disrupt the freedom celebration, Sir Milton forehandedly jailed 31 of them...
...almost two months, his yacht, the Caleb (Seagull), had hopped from port to port because Tito is afraid of airplanes. Ghana's 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...
Cold Storage. Tito dropped off tokens of his esteem at every stop. Nkrumah got a movie projector and reels of film about Yugoslavia, gave his bemedaled guest a symbolic golden stool in return. More substantial largesse included a promise to help build a naval base for Ghana, plus a $5,000,000 credit for Nkrumah's industrial-expansion program. In little Togo, Tito laid the foundation stone for a hydroelectric plant on which his own Yugoslav engineers had done some work. Even in Monrovia, where Liberia's President William Tubman runs a staunchly pro-Western and capitalist little...
Behind the scheme lay the fear that twelve poor, relatively small countries might not long survive alone among such expansionist wheeler-dealers as Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana and Sékou Touré of Guinea. Guiding spirit of the conference was Ivory Coast's able President Félix Houphouet-Boigny, 55, who had years of experience in the French National Assembly, has become ex-French Africa's most influential statesman...
...leftists, who struggle constantly to oust Cabinet moderates like seasoned Finance Minister Komla Gbedemah, derive most of their power from positions in the ruling Convention People's Party, which Founder Nkrumah has neglected as his official presidential duties increased. Sensing a squeeze, Osagyefo this month announced that he personally, was taking over the party's top job. Now he could plunge ahead with the main goal: "I see before my mind's eye," he declared resoundingly, "a great monolithic party . . . united and strong, spreading its protective wings over the whole of Africa from Algiers in the north...