Lightest Africa
\WiItH South African racial problems looming so large these days, the BBC programme Gold Coast Experiment (1YC) had a particularly topical interest. A documentary, done with all the customary BBC know-how, it dramatised the advent of independence for the Gold Coast within the British Commonwealth. The use of many voices, the careful sketching-in of background and history, the occasional snatches of native music all combined to give a very tangible impression of the Coast and its problems. I was especially struck by the articulateness and common sense of the native spokesman. The stress was on "creative abdication," and there was a certain amount of understandable selfcongratulation on the British side. . Throughout, I couldn’t help contrasting the Gold Coast situation with that in South Africa, something which, from a hint or two in the programme, seemed
intended. Yet, while the main impression was one of objective appraisal, I felt a certain subtle "slanting" in the direction of the view that independence was coming a little too soon. Despite the claim that the Gold Coast experiment was a model for all Africa-as perhaps it is-a lingering sense remained that the BBC felt that a longer period of "creative leadership" wouid have been wiser-as perhaps it might have
been.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 896, 5 October 1956, Page 22
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