Word: african
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...failed to point out that Gandhi is in a real sense a spiritual child of New England. In the very first chapter of The Kingdom of God Is Within You, which Gandhi read with such avidity in his South African days, Tolstoy refers to ... The Catechism of Non-Resistance, written by the Rev. Adin Ballou (1803-1890), who more than 100 years ago founded and became the first president of Hopedale (Socialist) Community in Hopedale, Mass. . . . Gandhi's "passive resistance" is just Ballou's "nonresistance" under another name. LEWIS O. HARTMAN Resident Bishop Methodist Church Boston...
This week Mazumbo let the cat out of the bag. His new name, he declared, was that of a famous West African chieftain, who had once been received by Queen Victoria. Said socially conscious Mazumbo of his socially accepted namesake: "The British Royal Family knows quite a bit about...
...least popular. Once, on a golfing trip to England, Locke got mad at being kept waiting by England's haughty Henry Cotton, retaliated by playing so deliberately that the match was nearly night-foundered. But, the story goes, when Locke himself was upbraided by a fellow South African for being an hour late for dinner with an English lord, he retorted: "I am Bobby Locke...
...Ojike spent seven years in the U.S. and returned to his native Nigeria in 1946 with a master's degree from the University of Chicago and a liberal education in race relations. As a writer, Mbonu has not taken as well to English. Yet as a study in African pride v. U.S. prejudice, this book has its amusing moments, mostly from Author Ojike's ingenuous tilting at some sacred U.S. windmills...
...your pardon," he replied haughtily, "I am a Black man from Nigeria." Ojike got the room. He was also initiated into American pomp and protocol, and discovered that by wearing Nigerian robes one could get admitted to many lily-white functions. But when he tried to enroll an African friend in the University of Chicago Medical School, Ojike ran into a form of democratic double-talk which plagues Negroes in supposedly tolerant Northern communities. The dean told him that although Negroes were accepted in the school, they were not permitted use of the hospital for their clinical work, hence...