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...explosion of new countries, new names, new faces and new facts week by week and year by year, TIME has reported the immediate news as it happened and has assessed the development in a wide range of major pieces, including cover stories on Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah. Guinea's President Sékou Touré, Kenya's Independence Leader Tom Mboya, Nigeria's Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, and Katanga's secessionist President Moise Tshombe. This week TIME wraps it all up in a brief but thorough guide to the cultural, political...
Exports: Peanuts. Per capita income: $177. U.S. aid (1961): $3,600,000. Senegal has little save glittering capital city of Dakar. Bordering Marxist Mali and Guinea, nation faces long-term Communist threat...
...GUINEA (F.) Pop.: 2,900,000. Size: 95,000 sq. mi. Literacy: 10%. College graduates: 60. No more cannibalism or ritual torture, but witch doctors flourish. Campaign against polygamy failed because of officials own insistence on multiple wives...
...Above-The Mud Below. French Adventurer Pierre-Dominique Gais-seau took his camera into uncharted New Guinea territory and brought back a grittily absorbing documentary record of headhunters, mock birth rituals, and curious relics of the Stone...
...Above - The Mud Below returns, in grittily absorbing documentary fashion, to the Stone Age. Filmed in the cruel, uncharted jungle of interior New Guinea, it is a salute to man's unquenchable zest for adventure and a pictorial diary of age-old sociological curios, from headhunting to mock-birth rituals...