Word: nkrumah
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...also had much to say about Ghana. George Lichtheim recently criticized O'Brien in the letters column of the New York Review of Books for not taking enough of a stand against Nkrumah. But if there was ever any foundation to this criticism, it became awfully weak after O'Brien's remarks last week...
...third stage was marked by an increased demand for some kind of partnership with the colonial powers by the native intelligentsia. Local leaders joined with the feudal elite and the growing middle class in an effort to demonstrate their collective power. The United Gold Coast Convention was formed, but Nkrumah soon split away from the UGCC to form a mass movement called the Convention People's Party...
...Abubakar himself was widely respected as a man who sought to bring the feuding regions together. He was also one of the continent's leading moderate statesmen, opposed equally to colonialism and to Kwame Nkrumah's brash brand of African nationalism. But many of the men in his government, especially the northerners, ran roughshod. The government was widely suspected of tampering with the 1963 census figures to ensure northern control in the federal parliament. In 1962, it jailed Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the anti-north Premier of the Western Region, and installed its own man, Chief Akintola...
...Boss Victor Nendaka had begun banning anti-Kasavubu newspapers and mounting a hate-campaign that seemed to aim toward Tshombe's arrest. Worse, to gain leftist support, Kasavubu had restored relations with the Peking-oriented Brazzaville Congo across the river, was cozying up to Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, and had promised to kick out the white mercenary troops that were the muscle of Mobutu's Congolese army...
...final blow came early last week when the Kasavubu government organized a "spontaneous demonstration" of leftist youths, who burned homemade Belgian flags, marched up Leo-poldville's broad Boulevard du 30 Juin under a forest of banners ("Long Live Nkrumah and Kasavubu," "Down with the Yankees," "Tshombe to the Firing Squad"), and tried to break into Parliament. The army arrested the ringleaders, but when Nendaka's police promptly set them free, Mobutu decided that it was time to step in. He summoned his 14 regional commanders to Leopoldville, where in a conference that lasted until...