Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consorcio lottery method for financing cars [July 21] may be "typical of Brazilian ingenuity and flair," but its origins are in the Old World. Although such rotating credit associations are known widely in Asia, Africa, and now in Latin America and the West Indies, the most likely source of the Brazilians' consorcio is the esusu of the Yoruba of Nigeria. Whether it was originally introduced to the New World by Africans, Chinese or East Indians, this popular method of saving is now known as boxi money in Guyana, meeting in Barbados, partners in Jamaica, esu in the Bahamas...
...drift apart some 200 million years ago? Some scientists believe so, and many recent findings support them. This month still more compelling evidence of continental drift was reported by U.S. and Brazilian geologists. Their principal finding was that two highly distinctive adjacent geological areas on the Atlantic coast of Africa match perfectly with a pair of rock regions located along Brazil's northeast coast...
...International Seminar will hold its final open forum of the summer at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Emerson 105. Messrs. Jayasuriya, Latin, Nishi, Oduhton, Shamsuddoulah, and Woo will discuss "Prospects of Democracy in Asia and Africa...
Whatever he was at home, the average white mercenary quickly pictures himself as a species of superman in the jungles of Africa. He soon finds that he is in charge of his own personal retinue of blacks. Equipped with better arms and much better military brains, he can go confidently into battle against an enemy that outnumbers him 20 to 1 -and that flees in terror at his ap proach as tribal drums beat the message "The white giants are coming...
Died. Claude A. Barnett, 77, Negro journalist, who in 1919 started the Chicago-based Associated Negro Press, a news service for community weeklies (225 at the high point in 1935), until his retirement in 1963 campaigned tirelessly for civil rights and chronicled the emergence of Africa's peoples; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Chicago...