Word: nkrumah
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...Nkrumah for President. For all their camaraderie at Haile Selassie's party, not all the delegates to Africa's first "summit conference" last week were pals. Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba loathes Ghana's power-seeking Kwame Nkrumah who is jealous of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser who despises the Ivory Coast's Felix Houphouet-Boigny who in turn is contemptuous of Senegal's Poet-President Leopold Senghor...
...antagonisms became amply evident during the long oratory that flowed out of the conference work site, Haile Selassie's proud, new "Africa Hall." Eyes glittering, Nkrumah took the floor to demand "Unity Now!" in the form of a vast United States of Africa, ruled by a bicameral Congress and a strong presidency (which, no one doubted, Nkrumah feels himself eminently qualified to occupy). Nkrumah likened the Addis Ababa meet ing to the 1787 Constitutional Congress in Philadelphia, whose delegates, he said, thought of themselves not as "Virginians or Pennsylvanians, but simply Americans." Cried Ghana's self-styled Redeemer...
...text for African unity. Many of our states are not mature enough." Urging a slower, step-by-step approach, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, the able Prime Minister of Nigeria, Africa's most populous state (42 million, six times Ghana's population), took the opportunity to spank Nkrumah for his notorious meddling in his African neighbors' affairs. "Unity cannot be achieved as long as African countries continue subversion against others." Balewa declared. He drew a storm of cheers, and even Nkrumah's old friend. Modibo Keita of Mali, joined in to denounce "black imperialism." With the conference...
...guest list was a Who's Who of Africa's successful revolutionaries and moderate nation builders. Ghana's egocentric Osagyefo (Redeemer), Kwame Nkrumah, was due in from Accra. From the Congo would come the embattled Premier Cyrille Adoula. Also on the list: Nigeria's able Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa; Senegal's Senghor; Guinea's Sekou Toure; and dozens more, including, of course, that affable fellow from up north, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, who was an African of a kind...
Predictably, there were those interested in bending the conference to their own ends: Ghana's Nkrumah sent a 120-member delegation piling into Addis Ababa complete with a high-life dance band. Osagyefo would be peddling his pet scheme for a bicameral all-Africa parliament and other similar quickie approaches to a unified Africa. No one was likely to buy Nkrumah's schemes, however, for it has long been obvious to all of Africa that it is basically Nkrumah that Nkrumah wants to promote...