Download or read book Betting on the Dark Horses: John F. Kennedy's Courting of African Nationalist Leaders written by Philip Emil Muehlenbeck and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey is centered upon five case studies of John F. Kennedy's relations with seven of Africa's most prominent leaders of the early 1960s. The African leaders examined are Sekou Toure (Guinea), Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana), Gamal Abdul Nasser (Egypt), Ahmed Ben Bella (Algeria), William Tubman (Liberia), Felix Houphouet-Boigny (Ivory Coast) and Julius K. Nyerere (Tanganyika).