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...they were “a bit horrified.” A professorship at Harvard and a Pulitzer later, the Elkins are probably glad their daughter did not major in economics.But the Foster associate professor of African studies has never been one to back down from pursuing her goals.INTO AFRICAIn just one year as a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Elkins wrote, edited, and published a nearly 500-page tome entitled “Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya.” The then-assistant professor?...
...will need this reputation. His job--finetuning the experiment in diversity which isHarvard's pride and joy--will not be an easy one.ABOVE: DEAN EPPS TALKS WITH A STUDENTPROTESTING HARVARD'S INVESTMENTS IN SOUTH AFRICAIN 1978. RIGHT: EPPS EXAMINES THE DEMANDS OFSTUDENTS STAGING A 1990 UNIVERSITY HALL SIT-INABOUT THE LACK OF FACULTY IN THE AFRO-AMDEPARTMENT.GLIMPSES FROM DEAN EPPS' LONG CAREER ATHARVARD COLLEGE. LEFT: EPPS STEPPING OUT OFUNIVERSITY HALL. RIGHT: EPPS AND HIS TWOCHILDREN...
...will need this reputation. His job--finetuning the experiment in diversity which isHarvard's pride and joy--will not be an easy one.ABOVE: DEAN EPPS TALKS WITH A STUDENTPROTESTING HARVARD'S INVESTMENTS IN SOUTH AFRICAIN 1978. RIGHT: EPPS EXAMINES THE DEMANDS OFSTUDENTS STAGING A 1990 UNIVERSITY HALL SIT-INABOUT THE LACK OF FACULTY IN THE AFRO-AMDEPARTMENT.GLIMPSES FROM DEAN EPPS' LONG CAREER ATHARVARD COLLEGE. LEFT: EPPS STEPPING OUT OFUNIVERSITY HALL. RIGHT: EPPS AND HIS TWOCHILDREN...
...gave Houphouet (he later added Boigny, which means "battering ram" in his native Baoule tongue) an itch for politics; in the 19405 he formed Ivory Coast's first political party, later organized nationalist politicians in all French West Africa territories into one large political group, the Rassemblement Democratique Africain. For a time. Houphouet-Boigny's RDA was allied with the French Communists, but eventually he dropped his Red friends; bv then, he was a Deputy in the French National Assembly, later held seats (Minister of State. Minister of Public Health and Population) in the French Cabinet...
There was a time when Houphouet-Boigny talked quite differently. In 1949 he called an interterritory congress of French West Africa's most powerful political party, the Rassemblement Démocratique Africain, and pledged allegiance to the French Communists and their fight against "the forces of imperialism." Thus encouraged, the Communists began to infiltrate the R.D.A., but so incited its members that bloody riots erupted. The following year, African Deputies in the French Assembly broke with the Communists. Today the influence of Communism is negligible in the political hierarchy of French West Africa...