Word: nkrumah
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...Beavogui, three aides and 15 "students" bound for a conference of African foreign ministers in Ethiopia. Apparently they were not aware that an interim stop would put them down briefly at Accra, capital of Ghana. Otherwise, they might have traveled another route. After all, since last February, when Kwame Nkrumah was ousted by a military coup and took refuge in Guinea, the two nations have been the bitterest of enemies...
Finally, Sekou Toure reluctantly released Ambassador Mcllvaine and offered to pay the air fare from Conakry to Accra of any Ghanaian who wanted to be repatriated. Toure knew well enough that few would take the offer: most of the Ghanaians in Conakry are members of Nkrumah's personal entourage who, in Accra, would face jail, a trial, and perhaps a firing squad. At week's end, Ghana's strongman, Lieut. General Joseph Ankrah flew off-via a Ghana Airways jet-to Addis Ababa to talk the whole thing over. After huddling with Emperor Haile Selassie, Liberia...
Only a decade ago at Bandung, 29 nonaligned leaders gathered for ten days to prescribe a cure for the cold war's ills. Since then, many of the non-aligned world's leaders have fallen: India's Nehru is dead; Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, Algeria's Ahmed ben Bella and Indonesia's Sukarno have dropped from supreme power. Indeed, nonalignment itself badly needs redefinition: the former nonaligneds have hardly anyone left to nonalign with...
...meeting of African political leaders, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah chided the Ivory Coast's Felix Houphouet-Boigny for being "pro-colonialist." Retorted Houphouet-Boigny: "We will meet again in ten years, and then we will see which of us has done better for his country." They did not need to wait a decade to know the answer. Today, Nkrumah is in exile, Ghana is practically bankrupt-and the Ivory Coast is Black Africa's most flourishing young country...
...argument that most white South Africans are more than ready to believe. Every time there is a crisis in the Congo or bloodshed in Nigeria, the whites nod knowingly and tell each other that "you can't expect anything else from the bloody kaffirs." Kwame Nkrumah's tyrannical rule over Ghana was hailed as proof that Africans were still too uncivilized to run their own affairs, but when he was overthrown, the military coup was cited as another example of political immaturity...