Howard W. French
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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.
It would be wrong to lose sight of
the many things that he tried, that he endeavored to do to put his country not just on a viable path, but to promote a greater good for Africa that was principled and was not megalomaniacal or self-interested.
Excuse me, I'd like just to throw in a thought here.
I should, picking up on what you've said.
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