To hot, rainy Monrovia last week came 16 heads of government and four senior ministers from 20 independent African nations. The occasion: the African Heads of Government Conference, the largest African summit meeting ever held.
Though the host and chairman was President William Tubman of Liberia, the man chiefly responsible for the conference was Félix Houphouet-Boigny (pronounced hoof-K>^ boyn-yee), 55, President of the flourishing Ivory Coast. A physician and plantation owner who served for 13 years in the French Assembly before his country became independent, Houphouet-Boigny is a sharp contrast to the rabble-rousers who make most of Africa's news, and...
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