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FOUNDATION STONE
GHANA
AND
ITS RESPONSIBILITIES OF INDEPENDENCE
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1957.
"OF COURSE IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU BUILD ON TOP OF IT”
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GHANA
"All
over-bar the shouting.” Yet noth- ing is born without a little pain. Ghana did not need to erupt at her beginning with the tragic pain and cost that tore at the vitals of British India when she achieved self-government. In Ghana it was a gay and cheerful beginning. The Duchess of Kent was there representing the Queen, to launch the new State in Royal style. "Rab" Butler was there to represent the British Government, and the flag that was coming down. And U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon was there too to wish the new country well.
many and grave are the problems which face Dr Kwame Nkrumah. The
el cheers and enthusiasm, and the
charming presence of the Duchess must have given him confidence and courage. Above all he can have confidence in the smiles of his people like that of Monica Amekoafia, a village seamstress from troubled Togoland-Ghana's first beauty Queen. Her measurements (40-38- 46) are not those most beauty Queens hope for. But she's beautiful just the same. Perhaps her measurements are a kind of omen that Ghana's problems too are not as "outsized" as they seem.
Broad Bossk
MALTA
LINETTIER
/ SELF-GOYERLINO
FRENCH WEST AFRICA
19
NOMTHERN
TERRITORIES
ASHANTI
GOLD COAST COLONY,
GAMBLA
1947
ISRAEL (PALESTINE MARDATED TERRITOIT) INDEPENDENT STATE
[GOTINE COMMONWEALTH)}{r}
1848
BUSKA
INDEPENDENT
{{GUTSIRE COMMONWEALTH) 1948
MITISH SOMALILAND
GHANA
{becomes a ne Independent
State
AFRICAN FEDERATION
[NORTH AND SOUTH RHODESIA, MYASALAND 1853
SUDAN SELF-GOVELITIA
(OUTSIDE VISION OF SOUTH AFRICA COMMONWEALTH)
1953
CEYLON ||MBEPERJEET
1948
INDIA and PAKISTAN
[SELF-ROVERTIKU
1847
NANCY
AUNT FRITZI --- I
LIKE OUR
NEW
MILK
MAN