Word: nkrumah
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...obstacles. Once it was the Mau Mau terrorists; now it is a new kind of impatient black nationalism led by an aggressive 27-year-old labor leader named Tom Mboya. who wants nothing less than to set up in Kenya the same sort of black republic that Kwame Nkrumah runs in Ghana...
...Built by Danish slave traders in 1661, it became an official residence of the British Governor General, then Nkrumah...
Cordon Rouge & Fat Mammies. At a banquet in State House, Prime Minister Nkrumah proposed a toast "To free Africa," raising a glass of Mumm's Cordon Rouge 1952 that had come straight from colonialist France. An orchestra struck up some Ghanaian calypso tunes, and at one point Nkrumah grabbed bemedaled President Tubman and whirled him about the dance floor. Next night the Prime Minister threw even a bigger party-a two-hour show for 50,000 people in the Accra stadium that featured tumblers, army drill teams and Accra's hip-swinging, fat "Mammy Traders...
...conference itself, Nkrumah opened the proceedings with an impassioned "Hands off Africa!" speech. But as the conference progressed, Nkrumah seemed to be less in control of it. The real stars turned out to be the Algerians, who had wheedled their way into the conference by attaching themselves to the U.A.R. delegation. Chief performer: M'hammed Yazid, the Algerian F.L.N. observer...
...conference passed a resolution giving to Algerian rebels just about everything they asked. Equally important: Ghana, Liberia and Ethiopia, which had hitherto expressed only vague solidarity, seemed ready to offer material help, probably in the form of food. All in all, Yazid, who officially should not have been at Nkrumah's conference at all, came close to stealing the African Personality show...