Word: parise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Go Away. "We do not wish," Touré had said, "to settle our fate without France or against France." But De Gaulle at first was quite willing to carry on without Guinea. Paris announced that all French functionaries would be withdrawn within two months. Toure's brash reply: Remove...
"We have our will, our arms and legs, and we know how to work," declared Toure grandly-but arms and legs were not enough. And so one day last November the President of Guinea flew off to pay a state visit to Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana. The two...
Barthélémy Boganda, 48, stoutish Premier of Ubangi-Shari in French Equatorial Africa, which now bears the ambitious name of the Central African Republic. It is a land of which it is said that the majority live in the Stone Age, and the advanced people live in...
Léopold-Sédar Senghor, 52, the grand old man of Senegalese politics, widely regarded as Africa's foremost intellectual. An opinionated and brilliant man, the son of wealthy Catholic parents, Senghor started his career as a teacher in the Parisian Lycée Louis-le-Grand...
Manuel Prado, banker and boulevardier, swept back in 1956 from eight years of exile in Paris to begin the process of uniting his divided country. He accepted Apra support for the presidential election, in return legalized the party when he won. For this, the oligarchs labeled him a traitor to...