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...meeting of African political leaders, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah chided the Ivory Coast's Felix Houphouet-Boigny for being "pro-colonialist." Retorted Houphouet-Boigny: "We will meet again in ten years, and then we will see which of us has done better for his country." They did not need to wait a decade to know the answer. Today, Nkrumah is in exile, Ghana is practically bankrupt-and the Ivory Coast is Black Africa's most flourishing young country...
There are several notable examples of good government. In the Ivory Coast, President Felix Houphouet-Boigny-who before independence served as French Minister of Overseas Territories -is building a booming economy that has raised the living standards of his people enormously. Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere has managed to absorb Communist-minded Zanzibar without falling prey to the Reds, last year promoted a unique experiment in one-party elections: his Tanzania Africa National Union put up two candidates for each post, with the result that several of his own Cabinet ministers were defeated. Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta...
There are men in Hendrik Verwoerd's government who lack the statesmanship of Houphouet-Boigny, Nyerere, or Kenyatta. But had these African leaders grown up in South Africa, their abilities would never have been known. They would have been bank clerks, messengers-or in jail...
...thing to call for 50,000 Guinea volunteers to march into Ghana and restore "the Redeemer" to his throne. Trouble was that to get there, Sekou's soldiers would have had to march 250 miles through an entirely different country, the Ivory Coast, whose President Félix Houphouet-Boigny called out his own 3,000-man army to repel the "Guinean hordes...
...scorn rang a trifle hollow. Although he possesses a medical degree from the University of Dakar, Houphouet has been known to consult the omens of juju himself before making decisions, and even his name has a special juju meaning. In his native Baoule dialect, Houphouet means "pit of excrement"-a phrase intended to scare off devils...