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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”

World Copyright by aħangement with the Manchester Guardian

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

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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

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NEW

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