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...Cairo was getting the headlines, the conference in Cairo droned on. Nasser made a relatively reasonable plea that "peace in our time is indivisible." Indonesia's Sukarno, however, demanded "not coexistence but confrontation against Western imperialism." Most of the delegates went numbly along with Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, who blamed foreign plots rather than his own mismanagement for the fact that independence has not proved paradise...
Balkanized Continent. Tsiranana, of course, was denounced as a neocolonialist stooge. Next on the list of outspoken orators was Ghana's leftist Kwame Nkrumah. In a two-hour meander through his customary wood lot, the Redeemer threw some insights into Africa's darker thickets. As it now stands, he said, Africa consists of "economically unviable states, which bear no possibility of real development." Nkrumah warned against the continent's "Balkanized nationalism." All true enough, but Nkrumah's solution was his usual Pan-African panacea-a union government, with guess who as President...
...delegates easily dismissed the Nkrumah proposal of instant union as wholly unrealistic. They reacted more strongly when Nkrumah struck out at the O.A.U.'s "liberation committee"-a nine-man group that coordinates and finances the activities of some 16 separate "freedom fighter" organizations aimed at freeing the African nations still controlled by white minorities. Blasting the committee for its "inexcusable" failure to make effective use of Egyptian and Algerian military experience, Nkrumah cried: "We have worsened the plight of our kinsmen in Angola, Mozambique, Southern Rhodesia and South Africa. We have frightened the imperialists sufficiently to strengthen their defenses...
Instant Unity? As the conference got under way last week, Ghana's "Redeemer," Kwame Nkrumah, offered his usual proposal for instant Pan-African unity, was instantly cold-shouldered by most of the delegates, who realize that though federation is a fine hope for the future, it cannot work now. The grand items on the agenda promised the customary condemnation of Africa's remaining white-dominated nations, a pledge to tighten the existing boycott on the Union of South Africa, and plenty of high-flown words on the benefits of pulling together...
Good as His Word. But howls of protest arose from Algeria's Ahmed ben Bella, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, and even Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser. To them, Tshombe is still the renegade who played on the side of the Belgians, the man who connived at the murder of Leftist Patrice Lumumba, the Congo's first Premier. Worried at the reception they might receive in Cairo, Kasavubu nervously canceled both his and Tshombe's appearances at the O.A.U. meeting...