The Legon Observer

Abstract

An English writer and novelist. Anthony Hartley, making a plea recently for the developing world. Before an international association for intellectual and cultural freedom stated that it seemed "fairly clear that during the Seventies political instability in Asia and Africa is liable to increase ...” Earlier. He had mentioned the urgency with Which in the Fifties, the future of the underdeveloped countries had been contemplated and planned for. But how in the late Sixties this movement could be seen to have lost much of its challenge. While the urgency and human poig- nancy of the cause itself had remained unabated. Yesterday. the 1st of January, the new decade of Anthony Hartley's concern opened in dead earnest. 11 is inevitable that we should here and now speculate on its problems and promises. At least for Africa in general and Ghana in particular.