Word: pan-africanism
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Strong Suspicion. All the while, he was proclaiming himself the father of Pan-African nationalism, and grinding out intricately vague political doctrines about "African socialism." It all sound ed splendid enough, and his fellow Africans were impressed at first. Later, when they found his agents bent on overthrowing their regimes, other African leaders lost their enthusiasm for the freedom pioneer. He was strongly suspected of instigating the 1963 assassination of Togo's President Sylvanus Olympic; last year 14 French-speaking states joined together in a formal denunciation of his eternal plotting...
...ability to verbalize the subtle shift of power from the Colonial to the Pan-African. He demonstrates how the British were caught in a logical inconsistency whereby they accepted infinite perfectability for themselves, but denied that it applied to Africans. There had been a total reversal of roles: the British, once optimistic about their own capabilities, were forced to take a pessimistic view towards African potential, while the Africans outgrew their sense of inferiority and were now optimistic about the possibilities of Pan-African growth. For all his vague historical generalizations, Armah has come to some original conclusions about...
...Colonel Houari Boumedi enne's first acts after he seized power in June was to denounce the schemes for Pan-African subversion, which had been so dear to his predecessor, Ah med Ben Bella - and which had proved so costly to Algeria. The gaunt new Premier has ended the fat subsidies handed out to the 22 foreign revolutionary movements based in Algiers, ordered exiles to stop their political activities or leave the country. As if to prove his good intentions last week, the government newspaper El Moudja-hid published long front-page tributes to Upper Volta and the Ivory...
...Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah. Charging that Nkrumah has bankrupted his nation for his own political ends, Upper Volta's President Maurice Yameogo drew cheers with his acid observation that "in Ghana you have to stand in line nowadays to buy a box of matches." Should Nkrumah lead a Pan-African government? Chortled Yameogo: "How can he expect to extend that to the rest of Africa when he has lost the allegiance of his own people...
With no stage-set, a minimum of props (a couple of wine bottles, and an old bicycle), a maximum of high spirits and a great deal of skill, the Pan-African Student Organization took the stage of the Quincy-Holmes Arts Festival Saturday night to present the comedy "The Trials of Brother Jeroboam" by Wole Soyinka. With the exception of one bit-part, the entire cast was composed of African students now living in the Boston area...