Word: nkrumah
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...Food for Peace commodities, last year took 15% of the entire U.S. wheat crop-and still faces famine (see THE WORLD). Ghana had a ruder awakening. Two days after the State Department lodged a strong protest over a new virulently anti-American book by Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah, the U.S. declined his government's request for $129 million worth of wheat, rice and dried milk. Faced with ever dwindling reserves and ever increasing demand, the Administration made clear that The Redeemer had better concentrate on feeding his people...
...something about the Smith takeover. Powerless to act on his own, and dependent on Rhodesian railroads and power to keep his vital copper exports flowing, Kaunda found himself being pressed to accept troops from those two eager conspirators, Egypt's Nasser and Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, as well as military aid from Moscow and Peking. Kaunda wants no part of it. He believes there is real danger that Rhodesia could explode into a worldwide "racial or ideological war" unless Britain itself fills the military vacuum in Zambia. Only the British, he figures, could enter Rhodesia without spreading...
...fact is that the whites who have remained are still working and raising their families in every one of Africa's 29 new black states-if for no other reason than that they are needed. For all his anticolonialist bluster, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah depends heavily on the 5,000 Britons (and scores of Americans) who live in his country, engineering dams and power projects, running factories and keeping trade channels open. Despite the horrors of the past, there are now 60,000 Belgians spread throughout the Congo (which once had 90,000), and the nation...
...accommodate the chiefs of the organization's 36 member nations, Nkrumah had spent nearly $50 million on everything from lettered T shirts ("Long live the O.A.U.!") to his celebrated "Project 600," the conference-headquarters complex itself. Dominating it all was a twelve-story structure built to Nkrumah's taste-the luxurious bulletproof, bomb-resistant VIP hotel, known to local wags as "the Maginot Hilton." Marveling at the spacious conference room, Kwame's official weekly Spark was awestruck. "It is in this room that the fate of Africa is to be decided," it said. "It is here that...
...issue it took up-including the matter of sending troops to Rhodesia. Only 19 heads of state even entered the conference room, for nearly half of Africa boycotted Kwame's "summit" entirely. The official excuse used by the leaders of French-speaking Africa, who led the boycott, was Nkrumah's failure to deport the hundreds of exiled subversives who use Accra as a headquarters for plots against them. But when, at the last minute, he desperately rounded up all the exiles he could find, they still refused to come. Their real goal all along had been...