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"NIXON DOCTRINE" AND AFRICA                                         OBATALA

particular have been "blacklisted" by USIS. Whether or not this is formal policy is not the point; the fact of the matter is that, generally, journals which tend to carry articles dealing with the political and economic realities of American life are noticeably absent from the shelves of USIS libraries and "culture centers."
Aside from the activities of its own publishing apparatus, the United States government also exercises considerable influence upon the African press. Ghana provides a good example. Ghana's two main dailies, the Times and the Graphic are government controlled and are thus subjected to censorship. One of the largest publishing outfits in Ghana is the Accra Catholic Press which prints large quantities of material for USIS and other American agencies operating in Ghana and is under the direction of a conservative and pro-state department (white) American woman by the name of Drid Williams. Aside from its printing activities, the Catholic Press in Ghana publishes the youth magazine New Era and the quarterly opinion journal, Insight And Opinion; the former has a large circulation in Ghana while the latter is distributed internationally. The main thrust of both journals is toward religion, culture, history and art with an occasional article containing political analysis. The new cultural national magazine Youth is operated by a predominantly African staff headed by an attractive and dynamic African woman, Miss Adelaide Amegatcher. It is interesting to note, however, that there is a direct source of American influence in the person of one "Yao" Warren, a white American, who sits on the board of editors. ("Yao" being this American's sop to traditional African culture.) Aside from other little dubious odds and ends which "Yao" may perform as a member of Youth's editorial staff, he has also assigned to himself the responsibility of convincing Africans that "Christianity is not the white man's religion."⁴

American influence, however, is not confined to the press and the public media. The non-military apparatus of U.S. imperialism has also extended its tentacles into the intellectual and academic institutions of Africa. Americans are to be found in large and ever increasing numbers among the staff, faculty and student body of African colleges and universities. The hall-master at The University of Ghana's Mensah Sarbah Hall is a white American, while the Chancellor himself, though African, has close American ties. The Director of the Institute of African Studies at the University of
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⁴See Youth, Vol. 1, No. 1, Feb. 1970.

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