Word: volta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Symbolism was rampant. In the hope of aiding African unity, Mali deliberately matched its colors to the red, yellow and green of the flags of Guinea and Ghana. The horizontal black, white and red stripes of Upper Volta stand, appropriately enough, for the three rivers called the Black, White and Red Volta. Tropical Gabon achieved a romantic note: its yellow band represents the equator running between the green of Gabon's forests and the blue of the sea. Togo touched nearly every base: its green stripes represent agriculture, its gold, wealth; red stands for patriotism, and the single white...
...R.D.A.). Guinea's Sékou Touré once led a powerful opposition of the left within the party, but Touré opted Guinea out of the French Community and into relative quarantine. Houphouet-Boigny men from the R.D.A. now rule in the French Congo, Niger, and Upper Volta, and his voice is strong in the other states that joined in last week's conference...
...Senegal's President Léopold Sédar Senghor and Premier Mamadu Dia, Niger's President Hamani Diori, the Upper Volta's President Maurice Yameogo, Dahomey's Premier Hubert Maga, Mauritania's President Mocktar and Ould Daddah, Cameroun's President Ahmadou Ahidjo, plus ministers plenipotentiary of the Central African Republic, Gabon and Chad. But Mali sent only an observer; Togo, currently feuding with Houphouet-Boigny, did not attend...
...Cameroun, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo (Brazzaville), Dahomey, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Malagasy, Niger, Somalia, Togo, Upper Volta. Also admitted to membership was the Congo (Leopoldville), but the delegation was not seated, pending settlement of the dispute over representation...
...solemn black men advanced through the murmuring chamber to take their new-won seats. Carrying themselves with graven dignity, often combining ritual facial scars with impeccable European manners, they came from lands of jungle and desert whose very names were scarcely known to the West-Chad, Gabon, Dahomey, Upper Volta. The headlines went to Dwight Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro. But in the sweep of history, the 15th U.N. Assembly might be regarded as the time of the Africans...