Howard W. French
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And if we can build an enormous dam, which they eventually do, we can sell cheap power, subsidize power for our neighbors.
And by this act of sacrifice on our part, not trying to profit from our electricity, but being brotherly toward our neighboring states, we can show them by example what Pan-Africanism means.
That if we surrender something,
on behalf of a greater good, just like I said with the American colonies, we can then emerge on the other side of an equation where we are all in a much better place, right?
He does make this kind of sacrifice with regard to Guinea in 1958.
So,
Secouture, this colony led by Secouture, rejects a French proposition to enter into a kind of compact with France in which the French colonies would have flags and would have their own leaders in a formal sense.
But in fact, France would remain in charge of all of the most important dossiers that any government contains.
The Guineans said no, and Charles de Gaulle, who was the leader of France at the time, his administrators in Guinea rip out the telephone lines, destroy the archives, close down every school and hospital clinic that they had acted out of vengeance and spite in their withdrawal from the country.
What did Ghana do under Nkrumah?
One year after independence, Ghana said to Sekuture, don't worry about it.
Let's join together.
I will float your government with our money until you can get on your own feet.
This is an extraordinary thing.
Where do you find examples like this in the world today?
Never mind Africa.
Where do you find these examples?
It is true that Pan-Africanism comes to the impasse that I described.
It is true that Nkrumah becomes more authoritarian in the 1960s than he had been at the outset.
I'd like to speak to that again in a moment, though, in a totally different way.
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