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...Wendemi: Child of the Good Lord," directed by S. Pierre Yameogo, and "Neria," directed by God-win Mawuru, elegantly portray African society, mores, and identity...
That struck a responsive chord, and Africa's former French dependencies played it repeatedly, with particular focus on the futile firebrand of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah. Charging that Nkrumah has bankrupted his nation for his own political ends, Upper Volta's President Maurice Yameogo drew cheers with his acid observation that "in Ghana you have to stand in line nowadays to buy a box of matches." Should Nkrumah lead a Pan-African government? Chortled Yameogo: "How can he expect to extend that to the rest of Africa when he has lost the allegiance of his own people...
...Yameogo's landlocked West African country, one of the smallest and poorest of Africa's new nations, has about 4,500,000 inhabitants, whose yearly per capita income is only $50. Once part of French West Africa, Upper Volta gained its independence in 1960 and elected Yameogo, then 38, its first President. A staunch U.S. ally in the presence of such powerful anti-U.S. neighbors as Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, Yameogo did not come seeking more U.S. aid (Upper Volta gets about $1,000,000 a year), simply wanted to reassure Johnson that Upper Volta...
That night, Lyndon and Lady Bird threw a glittering state dinner for the Upper Voltan President and his wife. Afterward, the guests adjourned to the East Room for some entertainment cooked up by Johnson especially for American-Indian Student Yameogo. There, decked out in everything from buffalo hides (with horns) to loincloths, were 35 Indians representing 14 American tribes, who whooped, chanted and clanged their way through five primitive dances-all to Yameogo's obvious delight...
Toward evening's end, Johnson hustled his guests into a waiting limousine, sped through the almost deserted, post-midnight Washington streets to the Lincoln Memorial. Aware that Yameogo wanted especially to see the shrine, Johnson ordered that the spotlight illuminating the seated Lincoln figure be left on. As a Secret Serviceman beamed a flashlight, Johnson escorted the Yameogos up the stairs and into the memorial. There they paused, as Yameogo caught his first glimpse of the massive, brooding figure. "Formidable! Formidable!," he whispered in French. On the trip back to Blair House, Yameogo and Johnson quoted to each other...