Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Testimony to this effect was given to the Senate Foreign Relations-Armed Services Committee by the then ambassador, Henry Byroade, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian and African Affairs before going to Egypt in February 1955, and now Ambassador to South Africa. Other highlights of the dialogue between Byroade and the Senators, as released last week...
...azikwela was a simple protest against a one-penny rise in the bus fare. In the weeks since then, however, what began as a purely economic demonstration on the part of 15,000 Johannesburg bus riders has burgeoned into a full-scale political battle between South Africa's African National Congress and Premier Strydom's racist government...
...seats had already been sold, and hundreds of walking Negroes were arrested on the roads and herded into jails on cooked-up charges. The Negroes still refused to ride the buses. "We must smash this boycott," said Transport Minister Ben Schoeman. "It's only a test by the African National Congress of its power. If they want a showdown, they'll get it." But when one big Johannesburg chain store, accepting the government's get-tough advice, threatened to fire three Negroes for coming late to work, a strong hint of boycott by its customers changed...
Above and beyond that, Pineau said France has vast and beneficent plans not only for Algeria but for all its African territories. Said he: "On the day when the [European] Common Market . . . has been created, [France] would like to promote the formation of a Eurafrican whole. Europe in. its entirety, bringing to Africa its capital and its techniques, should enable the immense African continent to become an essential factor in world politics...
...Ivory Coast chieftain who was once ready to fight for independence, but now calls for "self-government within the French Union." A year ago, when Socialist Guy Mollet was named Premier of France, 51-year-old Félix Houphouet-Boigny became the first West African ever to sit in a French Cabinet. Ever since, Houphouet-Boigny and Mollet's Minister of France Overseas, 46-year-old Gaston Defferre, have been working for more autonomy...