Word: tsiranana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meeting of African chiefs of state because it is to be held in Ghana. They will also stay away from this month's important Afro-Asian summit meeting in Algiers. "We consider Afro-Asianism a little passe," Senegal's respected President Leopold Senghor declared. Added President Philibert Tsiranana of the Malagasy Republic: "Especially if it means Chinese subversion in our countries...
Timely Reference. Most forthright was chunky, acerbic Philibert Tsiranana, rightist President of the Malagasy Republic (formerly Madagascar). "All I hear," he told his uneasy listeners, "is blah, blah, blah. We all talk too much, and we must purge ourselves of this disease." In the course of his own 85-minute harangue, President Tsiranana offered purgatives for a few other African diseases...
...Beware of raising armies," Tsiranana warned, "for they can overthrow us. Beware of visiting African delegations that come to enjoy your hospitality and praise you to your face, but stir up insurrection behind your back." To the nervous titters of such practitioners of insurrection as Algeria's Ahmed ben Bella and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, he took a cut at that African holy of holies, nonalignment. "We all say we are neutral, but we all favor anybody who helps us," Tsiranana said. "If you ask me the truth, I'll say mais oui, I am allied...
Balkanized Continent. Tsiranana, of course, was denounced as a neocolonialist stooge. Next on the list of outspoken orators was Ghana's leftist Kwame Nkrumah. In a two-hour meander through his customary wood lot, the 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...
...Asian adventure dismayed the overwhelming majority of South Viet Nam's 7,000 strongly anti-Communist overseas Frenchmen, who called it "une folie de grandeur." Even France's former colonies in Africa, which usually give Paris solid diplomatic backing, were split. Said Madagascar's President Philibert Tsiranana, echoing the opinion of about eight (out of 14) French-oriented African states: "For once, I will not follow General de Gaulle." Eying the enormous market for its goods on the Chinese mainland, Japan was torn between commerce and political loyalty. "Our policy, in accordance with the principle of separation...