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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME'S Man of the Year. Since then, Africa has been making history on its own, awakening the rest of the world to Africa's own awakening. TIME cover stories illustrate the way the story has developed. In 1952 there was Daniel Malan, the dour Boer Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, who died last week, out to keep what he regarded as the inferior black majority of his countrymen in permanent subjection. After him came the face of Black Africa nationalism- Ghana's Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah in 1953. In the north, the same...
...Macmillan. To a crowded House of Commons last week, Macmillan dramatically announced that he and Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd would fly off to Moscow Feb. 21 for a ten-day state visit. In Paris Macmillan's decision aroused grumbles that this was an odd time for a British Prime Minister to decide to accept an invitation which the Soviets first extended to Sir Anthony Eden 2½ years ago. But U.S. leaders raised not a peep. Having just played host to Mikoyan, they were scarcely in a position to complain. And they felt no need...
...talking point should he decide to call a general election before the end of the year. In the House of Commons the universal good-natured reaction to news of Macmillan's Moscow trip was expressed by Labor M.P. Jean Mann. Said Mrs. Mann: "May I thank the Prime Minister, wish him Godspeed and ask him the date of the election...
Under the law his powers were limited, but no one could have made more use of them. Like Ghana's Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, who has waged relentless war against the traditional tribal power of the Ashanti chiefs in his homeland, Toure tackled the tribalism that plagues all of Africa. He summoned the French commandants de cercle-the French equivalent of the British district commissioners -asked them what they thought of the chiefs who were running Guinea's 240 cantons. The commandants were delighted to help: this chief was lazy, that one corrupt. As a matter of fact...
...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 men soon had both Paris and London gasping...