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...this conference so important?" Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah rhetorically asked his people in a radio broadcast last week. To his capital of Accra he had invited the leaders of all of Africa's independent nations. It was an occasion Nkrumah had been dreaming about for years, and he obviously hoped that it would bring him closer to realizing the vision his mother once had of him as the voice of Africa. Now that the big day had come, Nkrumah was full of optimism. "For too long in our history," said he, "Africa has spoken through the voice of others...
Full House. For nearly twelve hours Host Nkrumah shuttled back and forth between his Christiansborg Castle* and Accra's flag-draped airport to welcome delegates. As cannons boomed, planes disgorged the Foreign Ministers of Libya, Tunisia and the Sudan. Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie sent his third son, Prince Sahle Selassie. The United Arab Federation's Foreign Minister, Mahmoud Fawzi, deplaned explaining that only ''very pressing and unforeseen circumstances" (i.e., an imminent trip to Moscow) prevented President Nasser himself from coming...
Such methods roused a storm of anxious outcry among Britons who had most ardently urged Ghana's readiness to take its place in the British Commonwealth of Nations. But Nkrumah persisted, and last month was rewarded when his party gained a surprise majority in local elections in Kumasi, the traditional stronghold of Ashanti opposition. The chiefs' hold was broken, and Ghanaians appear to have accepted the change with no more than a murmur...
Jungle Kibbutzes. In spite of Soviet propaganda and missions, Ghana has yet to establish even diplomatic ties with Moscow. Nkrumah still wants his economic aid to come in the form of investments from the West: the British have no thought of pulling out of an expanding economy which, with Malaya's, now provides 22% of their hard-currency income. Though Nasser would doubtless like to capitalize on Nkrumah's Egyptian marriage to enlist Ghana in his bloc, Nkrumah has skillfully walked a tightrope between Egypt and Israel, has asked and obtained Israeli help in setting up a shipping...
Next month Nkrumah will play host in Accra at a conference of seven other African nations. Last week he accepted President Eisenhower's invitation to pay an official visit to Washington next July. After graduating in 1939 from Lincoln University in Oxford, Pa., Nkrumah won a bachelor of theology degree from the same university, and later took a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. "It will give me the greatest pleasure," said Nkrumah. "to visit the United States, where I spent the greater part of my university life...