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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: NEW FLAGS OF 1960 | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...steamy banks of Ghana's crocodile-infested Volta River seemed an unlikely place to make a major test of Western investment faith and prospects in the new, fiercely nationalist countries of Africa, but so it was. Meeting in Accra, President Nkrumah's Ghana government and a consortium of aluminum companies headed by U.S. Aluminum Maker Edgar Kaiser signed a historic agreement. Under the deal, Kaiser will raise $178 million to build an aluminum smelter. Ghana will supply the power by building a $168 million dam on the Volta River. "It could mean to Ghana what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Volts from the Volta | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...year-old Ghana, whose economy is almost wholly agricultural, the Volta dam and smelter combination could well provide the springboard to a miniature industrial revolution. Ghana's chief resources are the tremendous hydroelectric power potential of the Volta River and a large supply of bauxite ore from which aluminum can be extracted if large amounts of electricity are available. When Ghana was still a British colony and called the Gold Coast, British engineers drew up a plan for a dam and smelter works costing $900 million. It was more than newly independent Ghana could afford. Kaiser drew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Volts from the Volta | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Eleven at Abidjan | 11/7/1960 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Eleven at Abidjan | 11/7/1960 | See Source »

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