Word: nkrumah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, 50, there seems to be one thing wrong with little (pop. 4,900,000) Ghana: it makes him feel hemmed in. Months ago he began railing at the new states of West Africa to join him in a Union of African States to foil a "colonialist plot" that aimed at "Balkanizing" the continent. His neighbors, fearing that Nkrumah had in mind a little colonizing of his own, brushed aside the scheme. Undaunted, Nkrumah has even written his Pan-African hopes into a new constitution that would give him power to dissolve Parliament and veto its acts...
Apparently Nkrumah figures on his neighbors' doing some surrendering too. Looking north, he saw that certain tribes in the Upper Volta Republic should remember their "common heritage" with Ghana and join up. To the east, he has used the sprawling Ewe tribe as a basis for suggesting that parts of Togoland, which becomes independent in April, be taken over as Ghana's "seventh province." To the west, where Ivory Coast's Premier Félix Houphouet-Boigny is having trouble with dissident Sanwi tribesmen, Nkrumah said he is "studying the possibilities of regrouping" the Sanwi people...
...this is making no friends for Nkrumah. In big (pop. 35 million) Nigeria, Prime Minister Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafewa Balewa refers to Ghana's leader with scarcely veiled contempt. "I do not know why you attach any importance whatsoever to what Mr. Nkrumah says," he recently snapped to touring British reporters. In Togoland, popular Premier Sylvanus Olympio is even blunter. "The man must be crazy," he says. "Does he really think he can absorb us with his puny bunch of tin soldiers and those two minesweepers he calls a navy...
...been branded on the chest with five cuts that were supposed to make them invulnerable to bullets. But the song they had sung was well known-"General Moumié Gets Five Million Soldiers." The "general" referred to: Félix-Roland Moumié, 34, who lives in exile in Nkrumah's Ghana...
...seemed to get pleasure out of its big bang. Japan and Morocco prepared formal protests. From Nasser's United Arab Republic came the cry: "The government which has acted as a butcher in Algeria is now trying to act as a butcher for all Africa." Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah of the West African state of Ghana dramatically ordered the freezing of French assets (estimated at $14 million) until possible effects of the explosion on the Ghanaian population are known. Nigeria found it necessary to post security guards around the French embassy...