Spokesman For Emerging Africa Now Fears Murder By People He Sought To Serve
Kilitur'B Nolf: Ncarinc the end
of his lour of sub-Sahara Afri-i
ca, NKA's At Large correspond
ent, Ward Cajincl, is In Ghana.
. first of the West African nations
to win freedom from colonialism.
What six years of independence
have meant to Ghana and her
American . educated president,
Kwame Nkrumah, is told In two
exclusive dispatches, the first ol
which follows.
By WARD CANNKL
ACCRA, Ghana (NEAi-Can it
. be that emerging Africa's bad
boy Kwame Nkrumah has had
enough rope?
After six years of independence
and a shameless coquetry with
both the Western world and the
Soviet bloc, his nation of Ghana
appears to be in urgent need of
repair at the seams.
The country's treasury reserve
is dangerously low. down by two
thirds from its $750 million high
at independence in March, 1937.
The per-ton price of cocoa,
. the nation's major crop, is only
about half what it was in 1958.
Although the country has dem
onstrated a highly disciplined ca
pacity to lighten its belt in the
interests of maintaining a solvent
treasury, new austerity measures
in Hie face of depleted reserves
are bringing on increasing dis
satisfactions among many groups.
A railway strike following the
last wave of belt-tightening has
.WWW ,
BOMBED This-statue of
Nkrumah, one of scores in
Accra, Ghana, was dam
aqed by a bomb in Novem
ber of 1961.
resulted in a firm anti-strike gov-l
ernment policy.
A recent assassination attempt
on President Nkrumah and re
ports of other , restlessness in the
ounlry have brought on stronger!
security measures. Along with
the jailing of political dissidents.
the public circus of a trial of as
sassins, there has been a stepped
up anli - U.S. press campaign
which lias, among other tilings,
indicated the Peace Corps as o
camouflage for CIA activity.
But the most telling change in
Ghana has been in Kwame Nkrumah.
Today, the only thing seen ol!
the man who was once the spokes
man for emerging Africa is his
statue on the government plaza
lawn and his picture which hangs
in almost every lobby and corri
dor in the land.
The man himself stays home.
News is brought in by a se
lect group of advisers. Policy is
made by consultation with a
trusted cadre of four or five. All
decisions, reversals of decisions,
and reconsiderations of the rever
sals are made by Nkrumah himself.
The shining hope of African
nationalism and continental ma
turity has come to rest with a
man who is afraid to go out of
doors and daily loses the last
shreds of contact with his people.
Although the Nkrumah course
calls for determined neutralism
and cooperation with the Soviet
bloc, this reporter lound an over
whelming pro-U.S. and anti-Soviet
sentiment among the everyday
nennle he auericd. One traffic
cop. lor example, pui u mis uy
The Russians ana tne t-oics
and the others are not, very
friendly to us. I know some stu
dents who went to Bulgaria and
did not like it at all. I think our
president's friendship with these
people is just a trick to gel more
money from your country.
The Ghanaian civil service, a
well-trained organization brought
up by the best of British train
ing, is equally out of sympathy
wilh the Iron Curtain coopera
tion scheme. Says one ministry
man over a gin-and-tonic:
"They have contributed noth
ing as far as I can tell. "The
Russian planes in our Ghana Air
ways arc too expensive to run.
Their land survey team is meas
uring miles, not looking for new
mineral resources. Most of their
outright aid in industrialization
is still only in the promise stage.
And for every dollar they vc giv
dp. us we've had to put up two
in order to make things work."
Part of Nkrumah's policies, of
course, are both undcrsiajidaDlo
and with enough detachment
admirable.
It has been his job to turn
into a nation a land whose boun
daries were set bv conference in
Europe 80 years ago wilh
thought of what natural obstacles
and tribal lines they crossed.
It is not an easy goal, and per
haps the energy for the assault
has had tu be whipped up bv
sloganeering, scape-goalery, sup
pression and spending.
The propaganda has made Gha
na the best known nation in Af-
ica. But such an image has been
purchased at the price of enor
mous sacrifice in democratic
government, the libeling of the
U.S. as a neo-colonialist ogre and
a huge expenditure of capital re
sources on the plazas, uniforms
and other trappings of national-l
ism.
It has also turned the man be
hind it Into nn administrator
whose most consistent character
istic, according to a minor mem
ber of the inner circle is nn
infinite capacity to change his
mind.
And to keep his underlings in
line as he does so. If. says a
foreign diplomat on the scene.
Nkrumah gets up at 9 and says it
is noon everybody ui earshot
agrees immediately. II he cor
rects himself and says it is not
noon but mid-afternoon, everyone
in the room hurries to assure
him that of course it is mid-
afternoon.
(Next: What the future holds.)
IlhKAM) AND NKWS, Klaninlh Falls. Ore.
Thursday, May 16, 1863
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