Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...independent and pragmatic brand of guerrilla Marxism, even more violent than Mao Tse-tung's. In contrast with Castro, Che was not afraid to put his theories above politics. In 1965, at a time when Castro was trying to draw closer to Moscow, Che went barnstorming around Africa and Asia, drumming up support for a bloc of small socialist countries to counteract the "imperialism of large socialist countries." After Che's return to Havana, the two revolutionaries had a falling-out and decided to go their separate ways. Che then dropped out of sight, and seven months later...
...President Joseph Mobutu. Their departure, if it really comes about, is bound to make the Congo a more stable place. Under terms of a document signed by Schramme, the International Red Cross will arrange to have the whites flown to Malta and the blacks sent to Zambia in southern Africa...
...DEVIL DRIVES: A LIFE OF SIR RICHARD BURTON, by Fawn Brodie. A skillful biography of the fine old Victorian eccentric who roamed uncharted areas of North Africa and Asia and spent his spare time cataloguing the varieties of sexual activity he encountered along...
...Hausas side by side once more. It is clear that until the Hausas enter the modern world and acquire skills to compete with Ibos, there can be no harmony. The federal government must educate its people into the twentieth century--accomplish the essential task of modernization. This is why Africa's leaders have watched Nigeria's agony so carefully...
When the guns fall silent, Nigeria's economy will be shattered; its people will be embittered by tribal war; and it will face substantially the same problems it confronted a year ago. "Nigeria is Africa," says Kilson. "That's what so frightening...