Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After I had read your perceptive story on South Africa [Aug. 26], an ugly question kept bothering me: how many white Americans from Cicero to Selma would welcome apartheid policies here? As a newcomer to this country, I am struck by too many unhappy similarities in attitude between white South Africans and Americans. I hope that with the aid of enlightened governmental legislation within the next generation, I shall never again hear statements similar to the one made by a four-year-old neighborhood child to the effect that she is glad not to be colored because "Negroes aren...
...white not long out of Europe. "But then it's a new day, and the hibiscus blazes on your stoop, the housemaid is singing a township song as she hangs out the clothes, and your children are tanner than ever and growing like trees. The anguish of South Africa seems a long way away...
...Black Africa's Image. Basic to Verwoerd's policies is the argument that black Africans cannot govern themselves, much less the whites. It is an argument that most white South Africans are more than ready to believe. Every time there is a crisis in the Congo or bloodshed in Nigeria, the whites nod knowingly and tell each other that "you can't expect anything else from the bloody kaffirs." Kwame Nkrumah's tyrannical rule over Ghana was hailed as proof that Africans were still too uncivilized to run their own affairs, but when he was overthrown...
...perpetual chaos, the Sudan has been unable to cope with the rebellion of its anti-Moslem south against its Moslem north. Three East African nations have had to put down military uprisings, and the governments of eight countries have fallen before military coups. In addition, only a handful of Africa's new countries have maintained any semblance of the multiparty democracy that they inherited from their departing European colonists...
...black Africa has not proved the model of democracy that its well-wishers had hoped, it has certainly done better than anyone had a right to expect. Since 1957, when the great surge toward independence got under way, there have been fewer coups in Africa than in Latin America...