Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since he came to power in 1954, Prime Minister Strijdom of the Union of South Africa has pushed the Nationalist Party's policy of "apartheid" (segregation) into every corner of South African life. In the name of preserving the purity of Western civilization from the "mongrelizing influence" of the blacks, Strijdom has spared no effort in keeping the non-Europeans in his country separate and backward. The Prime Minister now seeks to segregate the two remaining "open" universities in South Africa, thereby completing the process of "separate development" in education...
...have no vote. We have no rights," said an African Congress spokesman. "The boycott is our political weapon, and no law on earth can make us ride if we want to walk...
Death Confirmed. George Sessions Perry, 46, towering (6 ft. 5 in.), Texas-born National Book Award-winning novelist (for Hold Autumn in Your Hand, in 1941), who covered the North African campaign in World War II for The New Yorker, wrote 145 stories and articles for the Saturday Evening Post (including many of the "Cities of America" series and a description of his fight against crippling rheumatoid arthritis); when his unclad body was found in a tidal stream near his home, two months after he disappeared (police theorized that he drowned himself; he had told friends that he heard voices...
Died. Grant Carveth Wells, 70, handsome, Ripleyesque explorer who alternated expeditions to Tanganyika, Manchuria and the arctic with lectures and radio broadcasts about flying frogs, African snowstorms and fish that winked from the treetops, once got $3,500 a week from a film company for Raffles, his garrulous myna bird, wrote widely about his rub-Dernecking (A Jungleman and His Animals); of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...
Just Another Intellectual. Collier's japes with apes begin with Alfred Fatigay, a tired African mission schoolmaster who leaves Boboma on the Upper Congo to return to England and marry his fiancée Amy, an intellectual sort of girl. For company he takes with him "a well-grown, sagacious, fine specimen" of a chimpanzee named Emily. All goes very well for a while ("In England the Primate takes precedence of all but Royal Dukes"). But Emily, no ordinary chimp, knows how to read. She takes a course in the British Museum, and she thinks she had better start...