Word: nkrumah
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...inhabitants, whose yearly per capita income is only $50. Once part of French West Africa, Upper Volta gained its independence in 1960 and elected Yameogo, then 38, its first President. A staunch U.S. ally in the presence of such powerful anti-U.S. neighbors as Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, Yameogo did not come seeking more U.S. aid (Upper Volta gets about $1,000,000 a year), simply wanted to reassure Johnson that Upper Volta and the other moderate, new African nations continue to hold the U.S. in high esteem. For his pains, Yameogo received red-carpet treatment, including...
...start the meeting was a scene of confusion and cross-purposes. It began without an agenda, ended without a communiqué. There was, in fact, barely any meeting at all. Ben Bella arrived late-only half an hour before Sékou Touré had to leave. And Nkrumah had been in Bamako less than five hours when he suddenly decided he had urgent business elsewhere and flew home. That left only Ben Bella and Keita, who could not leave because he was the host. They talked alone for two hours, and one of their subjects, presumably, was Mali...
...Nkrumah's main worry was a rebellion of another kind. To promote his sagging pretensions as Africa's leader, he has invited the heads of all African states to a giant pan-African summit conference in September-and is pouring more than $4,000,000 into a project called "Job 600," a complex of halls and theaters being built in Accra to accommodate the conference. But his reputation for subversion has put him in such bad odor that many moderate Africans now threaten to boycott the summit...
Chorus of Critics. At Nouakchott, the former French bloc went out of its way to condemn "certain states, notably Ghana, which welcome subversive agents and organize training camps on their territories." Two of Nkrumah's neighbors accuse him of "interference in their internal affairs," a third recently captured a band of Nkrumah-trained guerrillas; and for the past five years little Togo has had all it could do to keep Nkrumah from annexing it. After a Nkrumah-sponsored student demonstration outside the Nigerian High Commission in Accra this month, the Prime Minister of Africa's most populous nation...
...every year, catches up on sleep by snapping on a black eyeshade and stretching out on a bunk in the company plane. A confidant and partygoing pal of several world leaders, he has become the U.S.'s semi-official ambassador to Ghana's Red-leaning dictator, Kwame Nkrumah. He also finds time to serve on three U.S. presidential commissions and to supervise the nonprofit Kaiser Foundation Medical Plan, in which 1,200,000 members pay a monthly fee for the services of 1,000 doctors and 15 hospitals. Edgar used it to treat his ulcers, now cured...