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Slap for Kwame. There was polite applause, but much of the audience was lukewarm to the ambitious scheme. Malagasy's President Philibert Tsiranana replied candidly: "You cannot decree a text for African unity. Many of our states are not mature enough." Urging a slower, step-by-step approach, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, the able Prime Minister of Nigeria, Africa's most populous state (42 million, six times Ghana's population), took the opportunity to spank Nkrumah for his notorious meddling in his African neighbors' affairs. "Unity cannot be achieved as long as African countries continue subversion...
Political parties: 7. Voters: 76%. Keen racial-political rivalry between Africans and old, elite Hova tribe from Malaya. Conservative, democratic President Philibert Tsiranana is one of ex-French Africa's ablest leaders...
...fourth-largest island, whose 5,000,000 inhabitants are largely descended from a far-voyaging group of Malayo-Polynesians who settled there perhaps 20 centuries ago, became the independent Malagasy Republic last week to the theme of banners reading "Long Live France, Country of Great Men!" Bulky, autocratic Philibert Tsiranana, the country's most popular figure, holds the offices of both President and Premier, and to avoid bothersome annoyance from Parliament, persuaded the legislators to give him the power to rule by decree. Though completely independent, the new republic will remain in the French Community. In return, France...
...countries reached their lowest point in 1947, when the French ruthlessly put down a rebellion (estimates of rebel dead run from 10,000 to 80,000). They reached their highest point last year, when Madagascar elected its first territorial government, achieved a surprising degree of political stability under Philibert Tsiranana, 46, who became Madagascar's first Premier...
...schoolteacher who got into politics through the teachers' union, French-educated Tsiranana campaigned vigorously for the De Gaulle constitution. As De Gaulle promised, the Tsiranana government will run all local affairs, leaving to the French "community" currency, foreign policy and defense...