Word: nkrumah
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...dominance of the Third World is complete, and as a gesture of cultural magnanimity the director of the Nkrumah Museum in Conakry decides on an exhibition with the oddly compendious title "White Artists in America." The organizer is black (the museum has never had a white curator) and all demands from artists for a white guest curator to give advice in this delicate area are rebuffed. So the museum's man spends a nervous year among the studios of East Hampton, Venice West and SoHo in an atmosphere of mounting agitation and distrust. By the eve of the show...
...casualties among Africa's first generation of leaders have been heavy; Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Balewa, Togo's Sylvanus Olympio, the Congo's Patrice Lumumba were all killed. Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown in 1966; Kenya's brilliant young Tom Mboya was assassinated...
...blatant act of oppression is to launch an attack against the leaders of Pan-Africanism which Portugal recognizes as in opposition to her thieving actions in the continent of Africa. Those leaders residing in Guinea are Ahmed Sekou Toure (President of Guinea), Cabral (Secretary-General of PAIGC), Osageyfo Kwame Nkrumah, and Stokeley Carmichael...
...with an emotional report to his people and a plea to them to remain alert: "Leave your books and get your arms, leave your kitchen pots and get your arms, leave your plows and get your arms." The President reportedly was being assisted in directing the battle by Kwame Nkrumah, who was deposed as President of Ghana in 1966 and has since become Guinea's best-known exile-in-residence...
...female success at which to point. Angie Brooks of Liberia has served for the past year as president of the United Nations General Assembly. Annie Jiagge was Ghana's first woman lawyer, judge and finally Supreme Court justice. She headed an investigation into the corruption of the Nkrumah era that has been hailed a landmark in African political reform and justice. Sophie Lihau-Kanza is one of the four chief ministers in President Joseph Mobutu's Congolese government; and Mrs. Olyn Williams, Sierra Leone's first female Permanent Secretary, is a champion of the cause of women...