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6/3/1959
- Leaders of Mali
by Smith Hempstone Jr.
NOT FOR PUBLICATION INSTITUTE OF CURRENT WORLD AFFAIRS SH June Leaders Thies Senegal Federation Walter S Rogers Institute Current World Affairs adison Avenue New York N Y Dear Rogers Guiding fortunes three month Federation quarumvirate experienced Senegalese Sudanese leaders backed solid sometimes inspiring second At federation Iodibo Keita Sudanese school master tomorrow Keita educated Bamako capital Sudan served there school principal until teaching enter Sudanese territorial council Like Sekou Toure Guinea under influence Felix Houphouet Boigny President separatist RDA party French Communists Keita ALI S KEITA however broke Communists sooner Toure stayed Houphouet Boigny Tall longer At Keita elected Council French Union Toure regarded young RDA In elected Sudanese Deputy French Assembly served president French legislature In named Secretary State Overseas France following became president Grand Council French West Africa When Toure broke Houphouet Boigny question remaining French Community Keita strung along Ivory Coast leader Their alliance shattered Houphouet Boigny insistance African aspirations could attained autonomous republic remaining direct relationship Netro rather forming primary federations Ivory Coaster pledge Community itself toward independence Keita denounced Houphouet Boigny joined forces Leo Senghor Lamine Gueye Namadou Dia PRA leaders Ivory Coast leader plump Mall Federation which hoped include French West Africa exception Guinea Ivory Coast SH Houphouet Boigny Upper Volta Niger Dahomey Ivory Coast create among these territories Union Benin which little customs union providing consultation between member states matters common interest auretania white where would politically dominated blacks despise distrust But Keita still great hopes dreams West African unity The French Community states ginning France African states which Community evolve confederacy commonwealth nations Keita repeating Leopold Senghor Senegal worldly saying years This squat Catholic first French African become professor French university Tours spent years prisoner Occupied France during World War II Senghor whose principal works Hosties Noires C Ombres served French constituti assmbiy elected following represent Senegal French National Assembly elected He served Grand Council West Africa mayor Thies French Secretary State He headed PRA until party absorbed PFA African Federation Party which presi In addition Senghor president lalian Federal Assembly He without doubt profound political theorist among French Africans being finest intellectual Gallo African culture Senghor French official legitimate spring marriage between Africa France which something behind civil ceremony The little however greatly interested practical politics The political leadership Mall least Senegal asking preferred leave posts younger Keita Dia himself remaining behind scenes planning grand strategy elder statesman This either Keita president Sudan Mali amadou Dia president Senegal puppets They But Mall leadership truly collective refreshingly Africa where individual shipped enthusiasm Dia former teacher attended schools Keita elected French National Assembly He elected after French senator became mayor Diourbel After cadre became president Senegalese Coun overnment local government African SH With Keita Senghor helped PFA became president Senegal president Mall Senator French Community Dia likes think himself economic specialist publications include New Studies Problems African Ecgn Reflections E ClbnomY Afri6a xlthuh eompeten administrator Dia sh0wh inepist reflector forces rather creator He history Senghor theorist intellectual French West African unity movement Keita lieutenant practical creator organizer right Dia tries wring enough money peanut finance whole business The fourth member quarumvirate Senegalese politics Lamine Gueye Gueye mayor Dakar member Sudanese Assembly member French Assembly Senator French Union member Grand Council West Africa party Today still Senator president Senegalese Assembly mayor Dakar The alone level Senghor Keita Dia Gueye handshake duration smile guides gently elbow plush office punctu interview jokes which obviously enjoys touches conspiratorially point He nothing level Liberian successful American Negro politician Tall white haired Lamine Gueye headlines evening political career But The Master Senegalese indispensable quarumvirate knows everyone shrewd ability coupled charm pilot unpopular measures through legislatures minimum feather ruffling Lamine Gueye other three French Community toward independence Mall But Gueye anything about accomplished without razzing which accompanied Guinea march independence Everything accomplished France It France herself alter structure Community fulfil aspirations Africa We would prefer In language France which build united Africa These I opportunity perhaps dozen lesser leaders Tidiane Traore neutral Chevalier Legion Honor Federal inister Informa Brooks Brothers slick Andre Guillabert mulatto president Senegalese Assembly pudgy Sudanese attorney Gabriel D Arboussier American former president Grand Council member Senegalese Mali Assem blies Doudou Thiam Minister Finance whose SH unimpressive personality shields economic brains Africa attorney Valdiodio N Diaye complacently American Senegalese inister Interior Of impressed political comer Ousmane Bao Ba former Sudanese medical ficer attended school William Ponty Keita Dia served Sudanese Senegalese Upper Volta hospitals A relaxed person tugged draped chair while talking Ba active Upper Volta politics served inister Public Works territory He battle bring Upper Volta Federation forced resign cabinet December result Upper Volta premier aurice Yameogo feared Ba political activities branded medical officer extre forced special aimed Ba through Upper Volta Assembly debarring cabinet ministers forced resign running Assembly Ba executive Ungtan French Africa mammoth labor union named Minister Public Works Labor In quarters Ba regarded Communist He admits other labor leaders Communist influenced maintains interest international political movement which might retard African unity We responsible Ba division Africa But rectify situation Not French Africa West Africa united within lifetime Africa needs financial assistance achieve dreams We forthcoming America If elsewhere Ba looks young Houphouet Boigny struck being mentally flexible sharp He reputed highly regarded little feared quarumvirate Definitely watch These future They strong political position PFA holds seats Senegalese Sudanese Assemblies course seats alian Assembly Political opposi allowedand greater distribution tribution seats would indicate But basically there strong unity purpose which should provide stable political situation This Malian leaders preach their doctrine unity abroad They effective dignified fashion which seems promise succeed their Ghana Nkrumah accomplished Events moving French Africa faster I lized Received New York June