Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1959-08-08
Three Roads In Africa

Three notable developments have headlines about
Africa in the last week two hghlghting that vast
stage wherein the discovery continent bv it's own
people is being enacted.
These developments (D the meeting of three
west African leaders in Liberia consider formation of
an allAfrlcan federation; (2) the proposal by Prime
Minister Macmillan for commission study the uues-
ton OF Central African Federation project in which
the white communities in the region take the leading
role and 90 the report of the British commission
the uprisings in Nyasaand several months ago up-
rlsngs against the Central African Federation
These developments reflect major trends in African
political evolution; The panAfrcan movement the new
French Community of Nations, and the Brtished Com
monweath of Nations
1t SENS likely these great movements will march
merger because of fundamental differences But each
makes contributions to African evolution which are es
sentlal in century dominated by world struggle be-
tween democracy and communicative systems much
more divergent in method and purpose than are the
three African movements
In the pan-Africa outlook, for which Prime Mnist-
er Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana aims to remain the lead
ing spokesman African self-consciousness finds it's
greatest stimulus This affects all Africans even in the
groups that form around Afrcan-French and African
British cooperation But this cooperation also represents
wand relation between African natural resources and
talents and European education and finance
IT,: Tor tne moment the pan-Afrcan movement has
cleved minor check That the result of the three
nation West African meeting The conferece decided TO
wait until Nigeria and the French Cameroons and Togo
land achieved independence next year before irving TO
form African federation
meanwhile the building of oncecolonial into Com
monweaitn area is presenting difficulties to the
Erltish Ghana is in the Commonwealth and Nigeria
Will BE- but always subject to the pull pan-Arfcanism
hen TOO there is the question of the Central African
RECREATION This has split not only whites from Africans
In the Rhodesias and Nyasaland, which make up this
uneasy federation but also the British Parliament itself
There the Labor opposition is berating the Macmillan
government for its African policies
1t is interesting, token of British sincerity that
commission appointed by the Macmillan government
mas just brought in report contrary to certain past
basic assumptions of the government and this has he
come British White Paper ~ ~
Into this overall picture, it has unfoded RECENTLY
the French Community by way of it's interest in
possible future challenge from leaders like the Marxst
Sekou Ioure President of the only and tiny state that
chose full independence from France under the de Gane
Constitution. ~ ~
This, then is the mighty patchwork of Africa. #
is being redesgned by African forces of the twentieth
century sometimes in harmony, sometimes despite the
division imposed on Africa in the nineteenth To com
prenend its possibilities and its dangers is one of the
chief responsibilities of free peoples as the wider sto
gle between liberty and totalitarianism goes on
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