Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year, the illiteracy rate 40%. Though the economy is underdeveloped, Salazar has clung grimly to an increasingly costly empire; its colonies extend as far as Macao on the Chinese coast and Portuguese Timor in the East Indies. Tiny Portugal is cast in the unlikely role of Africa's last major colonial power. With 125,000 troops fighting three little-publicized wars in Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea, the country spends 40% of its budget on defense...
...BEAUTYFUL ONES ARE NOT YET BORN, by Ayi Kwei Armah. A Ghanaian novelist's parable about man's struggle for liberty and dignity, staged in post-revolutionary West Africa...
Bright as Swaziland's material prospects are, the kingdom is, in a way, only exchanging the rule of Britain for the suzerainty of South Africa. Swaziland is surrounded on three sides by its giant white neighbor and is effectively dominated by it. South Africans already own or manage most of Swaziland's business and industry and hold much of the 44% of the country's land owned by foreigners. Swaziland uses the South African rand as a medium of exchange. South African customs inspectors control the flow of its commerce. Air travelers to Swaziland must even pass...
...build a pipeline from Siberia's Ohka oilfields to the sea and perhaps take part in a $1.2 billion program to develop copper mines near Lake Baikal. Japan, which has few raw materials itself and is forced to import oil from the Middle East and copper from Africa, is understandably interested in these and other ventures...
...BELIEVERS: THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN SONG (RCA Victor). Sketching the path of the people brought from Africa to America, 13 full-voiced performers of this off-Broadway production lovingly interpret the music that expresses their history. The thunder drums of Ladji Camara provide a lightning introduction to the African chapter. The misery of the slave ships, the dreariness of the plantations, the vitality of the small churches, and the frustrations of city streets are caught in laments, work songs and field hollers, shouting gospels and spirituals, blues and jazz. While the arrangements can be faulted for lack of subtlety...