Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Africa and the Church" examines churchstate relations on the Ivory Coast, focusing on the problems of integrating tribal groups into one community...
Uprooted Forests. Similar forays are taking place throughout the game parks of East Africa. Protected by the rigid enforcement of poaching laws and strict limits on trophy hunters, the population of big game has exploded beyond all bounds. There are now 20,000 elephants in Tsavo alone, and another 20,000 have been counted in the Zambezi River Valley between Zambia and Rhodesia. In Uganda's Murchison Falls National Park, the pachyderms are packed in at a density of between five and 40 elephants per square mile...
Before it is over, Africa will have gone through the biggest big game hunt in its history. Already Uganda has "cropped" 4,000 hippo and nearly 2,000 elephants. Zambia and Rhodesia have hired white hunters to kill as many as 10,000 buffalo and hippo. In Kenya, where authorities at first feared that mass elephant slaughters might frighten the rest of the game out of the reserves, a month-long pilot hunt proved so successful that the government is now taking bids for the killing of thousands of elephants. Its primary stipulation: that the hunters destroy entire family units...
Although Seraphina is about to be boiled in molten wax in this week's com ic strip, any faithful reader of Jeune Afrique (Young Africa) can be confident that she will escape and vanquish her enemies to the applause of all the neutralist nations of the "third world...
Seraphina is one of the most popular features of a weekly French-language newsmagazine devoted to the problems of the third world, primarily in Africa. Reaching 85,000 readers around the world, Jeune Afrique has made itself must reading for the neutralist nations' elite...