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...here to see and learn," said Britain's Harold Macmillan carefully as he stepped off his plane in humid Accra to begin a month in Africa. This was the thing to say, for Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, his host for the first lap of the trip, was clearly in a teaching mood...
Although there were few banners up for the occasion and Nkrumah's own party paper launched a bitter attack against "British imperialism" on the eve of Macmillan's arrival, Nkrumah himself was cordial enough to his guest, treating him to lunch at a picturesque spot, high on a river bluff, carefully cleared of snakes and insects in advance. The two also got on famously at a statehouse banquet with fine wines and pheasant flown in from Britain, and later at a stag dinner given by the British Governor General. But the formal business between the Premiers of Britain...
...Macmillans tactfully stayed home when Nkrumah addressed a huge crowd at Accra's main arena to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Nkrumah's independence campaign against Britain, begun back in the days when Ghana was the Gold Coast colony. "I wish to sound a note of warning," shouted Nkrumah, as the throng shrieked "eee-yah" in approval, "that the enemies of African freedom, namely the colonial powers and their imperialist collaborators, are planning hard to sabotage African unity . . . They are prepared to grant political independence, but are also planning to dominate the African territories in the economic...
Next night at a formal banquet, Nkrumah, unworried by any possible inconsistency, turned to Macmillan and voiced the hope that Britain "will consider favorably any request for further assistance that we may make in the future, particularly in connection with the Volta River project," a $170 million hydroelectric scheme for which Nkrumah would like Britain to lend Ghana half the money. Macmillan's bland response: Britain would follow Ghana's economic needs "with sympathetic interest." He added an oblique comment on Nkrumah's performance the day before: "If we cannot cooperate, but sit down in opposite camps...
...than any other colonial power. Shining example: Ghana's University College, a University of London affiliate due for degree-granting autonomy in 1962. In ten years it has turned out 550 graduates, aims eventually at 5,000 students of all races. Ghana's volatile Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, himself a graduate of the U.S.'s Lincoln University, denounces it for costliness (160 senior teachers for 650 students), frets because the predominantly British faculty holds out for classical education against the practicalities that Nkrumah favors. Yet the college sparks Ghana's drive to uplift education...