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National Geographic : 1960 Sep
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National Geographic, September, 1960 wish to meet Dr. Nkrumah, indisputably one of the most powerful of Africa's home-grown leaders. I went inland, and one of the first "interesting people" I met was the Prime Minister, who has since been elected President (page 305). "One of those small-world things," I said. "You went to college in Pennsylvania and I in New Jersey, only 50 miles away." "And I know your NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC," he grinned.-* "Come along with me to the durbar, if you want something colorful to write about. You'll see the chiefs of W~estern Ashanti in all their ancient splendor." The Ashanti. Yesterday's fierce warriors of the voodoo-ridden jungle, men who dared pit spears against firearms. Today they arc prosperous cacao growers, but still proud and not too happy about the new form of democ racy. The Ashanti chiefs came to the durbar field in blazing robes of state. Bearers carried their carved wooden stools, symbols of their power. The soft yellow gold of Ghana, for which the Portuguese came to the Gold Coast before Columbus sailed for America, gleamed in their headdresses and in the warp of the robes. Huge umbrellas bounced and swayed as *Over the years the GEOGRA~hIc has published many articles on Africa's awakening: two, by Elsie May Bell Grosvenor, were "Safari Through Changing Africa," August, 1953, and "Safari From Congo to Cairo," December, 1954. 316
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