Word: pan-african
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...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...
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...
...solution was to call a special meeting of the Organization for African Unity. This fledgling Pan-African grouping of 33 states was created last May at Addis Ababa, where Emperor Haile Selassie sponsored the latest moves toward continental unity. The O.A.U. is an amalgam of two earlier unity attempts that had failed (the Casablanca Pact and the Monrovia Group), and with its insistence on African solutions to African problems, it listened with sympathy to Nyerere's story, effectively absolved him of his sin. Shaken but still alive, Julius Nyerere set out to rebuild his army and his popularity...
...matter minutes, Nyerere neatly converted the revolt from an internal to a pan-African affair. He also pointed out that the African Liberation movements, with headquarters in Dar es Salaam, might be damaged by the existence of just such a state of affairs in Tanganyika, and that this was also "the concern of the whole of Africa...
...Pan-African Union is still in the talking stage, he said. He revealed with satisfaction, however, that a federation of the East African states of Kenya, Tanganyika, and Uganda is very close to reality...