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...Kwame Nkrumah is "Showboy," and Guineans pay tribute to the strength of their President Sekou Toure by calling him "Elephant." But on the Ivory Coast (which lies between Ghana and Guinea, and wants no part of their merger), crowds have tagged their own strongman with the simple name of "Vive." The name could not be more apt: few men in the kaleidoscopic politics of French Africa have shown a greater talent for survival than 53-year-old Félix Houphouet-Boigny...
...gangplank of his chartered freighter to embrace, somewhat stiffly, the President of the Republic of Guinea, youthful (37) Sékou Touré. Later, when the two men stood side by side to review the tiny, 2,000-man Guinean army, a banner waved over their heads saying: "Vive I'Union Guinée-Ghana!" But last week, as Nkrumah started his long, 21-day conference with Touré, the big question was: How much life is there in their union...
...said "No" to De Gaulle and who has become one of the most powerful figures in the reversed "scramble for Africa"- that of the Africans themselves. For a report on the first unsteady steps of an infant nation and the growing pains of a continent, see FOREIGN NEWS, Vive I 'lndépendance...
...Vive I'indépendance!" he shouted, and three times the crowd roared back. "Vive I'indépendance!" "Vive I'Afrique!" he shrieked in a voice close to frenzy. Once again, the cry was three times repeated. There was no reason for Toure to do more. The crowd had seen and heard him, and that was enough...
Everybody loves Sékou Touré. Independence is sweet; Nothing is more beautiful than to be independent chez soi. Vive Sékou Touré! Vive éekou Touré, our clairvoyant chief...