Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SONG OF THE LUSITANIAN BOGEY. Writing well below his Marat/Sade form, Peter Weiss follows the first rule of the polemicist, not playing fair, in his tract against the evils of Portuguese colonialists in Africa. But the cast, members of the newly formed Negro Ensemble Company, infuses the evening with its own talent and humanity...
...disease can be wiped out from a large region, as it has been in North America and most of Europe, once the cycle of infection is broken by making 85% or more of the population immune. Until now, the cycle of infection has been spinning virtually unchecked in West Africa, killing 25% of the virus' victims and hideously disfiguring or blinding as many more. Measles, which carried a death rate of less than one-tenth of 1% in the U.S. even before vaccinations began, kills from 5% of children in some West African areas to 40% in others...
Next, who knows? She is game to go to Africa to buy up amulets from detribalized Africans. Or even pith helmets from retreating British garrisons. Her one question: "Got any contacts...
Political and social development, then, revolves around the Adzopes all over West Africa, the countless ugly towns of 15 or 20,000 people...
...large, the government has had to work at the schools from outside. A construction program gave Adzope a new secondary school last summer. The state printing house has begun to supply special textbooks written for Africa. And most of all, it politicizes its advanced students...