Word: nkrumah
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...COMECON meeting in Moscow, Nikita Khrushchev let loose another tirade against the Market, while in Britain, in full-page advertisements paid for by Tory Imperialist Lord Beaverbrook, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein blared: "I say we must not join Europe.'' Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah denounced Britain's plans to enter the Market and found himself in tune with Australia's Prime Minister Robert Menzies, usually no friend of the Commonwealth's black members...
OAMS will not upset national sovereignties; its members preferred to settle for a league with more modest and attainable goals. Its chances of success are accordingly far greater than the glittering schemes of Kwame Nkrumah, the thwarted boss of Ghana who dreams of ruling the continent. Stung by his failure to win wide support, Nkrumah sent no envoy to the Lagos talks. Instead, he hastily convened a rival meeting of his own in Accra...
...Nkrumah's conference of "freedom fighters" turned out to be another dreary, anachronistic round of anticolonial, anti-imperialist speeches preaching "freedom" on a continent already largely free from colonial rule. The Common Market of Europe was Nkrumah's new cuss word ("neo-colonialism"), and NATO was also dragged in for critical comment. Although his own country is impoverished, the dictator promised lots of money to potential allies. Nkrumah's party paper dubbed him Africahene (King of Africa) to top all his other self-bestowed titles, including Osagyefo (Redeemer) and Asomdwehene (King of Peace...
Most of the delegates to Nkrumah's conference were earnest, well-meaning black nationalists from regions still under white control, including Northern Rhodesia, Portugal's Angola and Mozambique. Today they welcome anticolonial support from any source. But if experience is any guide, they will want no part of the King of Africa once they win that freedom, forget their slogans, and start the hard task of nation building...
...remains a friend of De Gaulle's; sometimes, referring to his hero's country home, he will call his own modest house in the village of Yamoussoukro "Colom-bey-les-Deux-Eglises." Houphouet-Boigny's sentiments have hardly endeared him to the hotheads of Africa-the Nkrumahs. the Toures and the Nassers-whose political existence is largely based on cursing yesterday's colonialism and extolling today's "positive neutralism.'' This foggy ideology, says Houphouet, is "merely a veneer behind which lies the Communist world." To Ghana's high-flying President Kwame Nkrumah...