Word: nkrumah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...First colonized (and named) by Germany 76 years ago, Togoland after World War II was split into British and French mandates without regard to tribal boundaries. In 1957 the British portion was folded into Ghana, whose ambitious Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah openly covets the French part he did not get. As late as 1958, France was still stubbornly rejecting any talk of Togo independence. Then under prodding from Togo's able pro-Western nationalist, Sylvanus Olympic, 57, the U.N. ordered an election in which Olympio's Committee for Togolese Unity swept two-thirds of the seats, and thereupon...
...black man with a name newly famous but hard to pronounce does not show up at New York's Idlewild Airport in a neat black suit. In the past two years the list has included Guinea's Sékou Touré, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, Ivory Coast's Félix Houphouet-Boigny, Nigeria's Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Kenya's Tom Mboya, Nyasaland's Kanyama Chiume, Southern Rhodesia's Joshua Nkomo, and most recently Tanganyika's Julius Nyerere...
...Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana, the Ghana National Construction Co.-owned 60% by the government and 40% by the Israeli Federation of Labor-has consistently underbid the onetime top contractor, British-owned Taylor Woodrow. Its latest job: a $5,000,000 international airport at Accra...
...country can attest, it is proving a comfortable fit. When Ghana won her freedom from Britain three years ago, Israel's Zim Navigation Co. jumped in with a complete, ready-to-go merchant fleet-the Black Star Line-which saved Ghana so much in foreign exchange that the Nkrumah government recently was able to buy out Zim's 40% share. The Israelis are happy to sell out, and often wind up with a brokerage fee or a managerial contract. Liberia is employing Israeli construction firms on its new $3,500,000 Ducor Palace Hotel, which will be West...
When Sékou Touré of Guinea in 1958 visited his brother African leader, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, he ran his fingers over the furniture in Nkrumah's Christiansborg Castle in awe, saying, "The British left everything, even the ashtrays!" Things had been different when Touré demanded and got independence for Guinea, making it the only African state to secede from De Gaulle's French Community. Petulantly, the departing French took everything-the telephones and electric-light sockets, typewriters, chairs, tables, even the government records-leaving Guinea (pop. 2,800,000) to start building a nation...