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Article: Stokely Carmichael (later Kwame Ture).(Brief Article)(Bibliography)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- November 21, 1998
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MANY people move from left to right politically as they grow older. Stokely Carmichael did the opposite-and his trajectory both marked and influenced the course of black militancy in the United States.
He was, he recalled, ``a good little nigger'' when he entered Howard University in 1960. His contemporaries there remember him as a slim, strikingly handsome freshman-``a Nubian god''-holding ``very moderate views''. Yet in later life his politics were as fiery as the new name he took: Kwame Ture. The forename celebrated Kwame Nkrumah, the pan-African socialist who led the Gold Coast, a British colony in West Africa, to independence and called it Ghana; the surname ...