Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...author, a junior from Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y., is presently in Mwea-Tebere, Kenya working on a "rice scheme." He is in Africa under the auspices of the Phillips Brooks House program of Volunteer Teachers for Africa. Duggan was initially bound for Malawi, but is now teaching in Kenya. The Malawi project was cancelled...
Malawi has announced that it plans to open diplomatic relations with South Africa. A more ill-timed disclosure would be hard to imagine, as it coincided with the opening of the Organization of African Unity Conference in Kinshasa, Congo...
Banda's actions might well have resulted in the usual speeches and counter-attacks in the press, and little more, for recently Malawi has been quietly pursuing a course of cooperation with Southern Rhodesia, South Africa, and Mozambique, all of whom have avowedly racist governments. And, in fact, the announcement itself was greeted with surprisingly little reaction publicly. But it did not go unnoticed. Other African states may have been reluctant to criticize openly a former freedom fighter in his own right, who without bloodshed brought his country to independence. But privately they seem to have written off Malawi...
...Addis Ababa meeting represented a ludicrous ending to the futile history of the Organization of African Unity. It showed itself to be utterly disorganized and incapable of coming to grips with any of the major issues, which by October, 1967, had become major crises. President Julius Nyerere remarked simply "Africa is a mess...
...another of his characteristically frank remarks, Nyerere said "It's time Africa grew up." By the time the Conference was over, encouraging signs of maturity and progress had been made, and it was clear that Malawi, which did not even attend the Conference, had been left out of the bargain...