Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apartheid repression, South Africa remains two crucial steps short of being a full-fledged police state. It still has an independent judiciary and a free, if often intimidated press. Now, in what promises to be one of South Af rica's hardest-fought court cases in years, the limits of press freedom are being tested. The occasion is the trial of the editor in chief of Johannesburg's Rand Daily Mail, Laurence Gandar, who was arraigned last week for, as he put it, "fulfilling the recognized duty of a newspaper." As Gandar saw that duty, it included publishing...
...Year's Eve when I get back to Arizona," said Max. And, with a little tape around his chest, off he went in his twin-engine Piper Aztec on a 33,000-mile tour that should take him to Alaska, the North Pole, Norway, North Africa, South America, the South Pole, New Zealand and Hawaii before he gets home...
...said that Harvard is a microcosm of American society....Has Harvard fulfilled its obligations to its black students? This year at Harvard there are only TWO courses on Africa. Next year there will be NONE. Yes, Harvard is indeed a microcosm of American society--there is no place for the black man at Harvard...
...author spent two months this summer in Nigeria with Operation Crossroads Africa. He worked on the costruction of an open-air market in Ojo Village, twenty miles northwest of the capital of Lagos...
WHILE THE WAR has its roots in tribalism, the baffling political history of Nigeria makes it impossible to point a finger of guilt at any particular group. When the British carved out their colonial empire in West Africa, they paid little attention to anything but economic and administrative expediency. Nigeria is an uneasy marriage of over two hundred tribal groupings, many with linked histories and cultural similarities, others with very different roots and ways of living. The Hausa-Fulani with about 29 million tribesmen dominate the North. Islam is their faith, and they trace their origins to the North...