Word: nkrumah
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...Indonesia too. We have run into trouble in the past year in Laos, Iran, and Jordan for stories that displeased the censors. In Ghana, a local distributor, on his own initiative, prudently burned all copies of one issue that reprinted a cartoon from the Manchester Guardi an showing Nkrumah gagging the press. In Arab countries, censors sometimes wield their scissors as if they were scimitars. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria and Libya have confiscated or cut pages out of issues in recent months, and in Iraq the censor has objected to stories about Middle Eastern politics, to cartoons, to a classically...
...very moment when we were crushing Tshombe's resistance in Katanga, we were shoring up Nkrumah, Africa's Castro, with a $133 million loan to Ghana...
...nations would no longer be considered for U.S. handouts on the same basis as nations of the free world. By last week the Kennedy Administration seemed to be having second thoughts. Items: >The State Department announced the authorization of a $133 million loan to proCommunist, anti-Western President Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana. The funds, which will pay for more than one-third of Ghana's huge Volta River hydroelectric and aluminum plant project (the rest will be provided by the World Bank, Britain and the Ghanaian government), were tentatively allocated last summer, then pigeonholed in the face...
...Effective legal protection of fundamental and inalienable human rights without distinction as to race, religion or belief"-a resolution that was aimed as much at Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana as at apartheid-ruled South Africa...
...Nkrumah's closest advisers are those who toady to him the most. Interior Minister Kwaku Boateng often throws himself on his knees in Nkrumah's presence and cries: "Osagyefo, you are my God." Other associates snicker at the Osagyefo legend, but exploit it to further their own ambition. Ghana's masses are openly skeptical of the Nkrumah cult. Hit in the pocketbook by prohibitive compulsory savings taxes and threatened with jail at every turn, they are in a rebellious frame of mind. Barricaded behind Bren guns in the presidential residence, Nkrumah is becoming increasingly aware...