Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throughout the world, more people are reading newspapers than ever before. Last week a UNESCO survey, "World Communications," totted up the world's daily circulation: 262 million, a sizable increase. The most impressive gains came in backward countries, where the drive against illiteracy has brought newspapers to African jungle villages and remote South Sea islands. The U.S. had the biggest slice of the world's daily circulation -more than 55 million-but in printing 344 daily copies per 1,000 inhabitants, it trailed behind Britain (609 per 1,000) and nine other countries, including Japan (with...
Fellow workers in the Nairobi office of East African Railways were surprised to learn that quiet, spectacled Walter Gash, a timetable checker, had won an M.B.E. ( Member of the Order of the British Empire) for pioneering this kind of warfare. Linking up with Mau Mau gangs, but staying in the background ("My phony Kikuyu accent would have given me away"), Gash gathered intelligence information, then would suddenly fling aside his rags and open fire with a submachine gun. "It was a case of kill or be killed in the forest," said Gash. Another operator working with the Pseudos was William...
...Call of the Muezzin. The novel's hero, Dirk Celliers, is a free-lance South African journalist nosing around Cairo for stories to send his London editor. An Egyptian officer friend, Major Khaled, takes him to a cell meeting of the League of Free Officers, a conspiratorial group bent on overthrowing the monarchy. Dirk quickly learns that the revolt has been triggered by a teeth-gnashing shame over the defeat in Palestine ("The hand grenades from Italy which had blown up as soon as you pulled out the pin . . . Spanish field guns for which the wrong shells had been...
...half of a two-man news agency, Java-born South African Author Schiemer, now 23, was a fledgling reporter of the Cairo scene for a year beginning in March 1953. He met Nasser and Naguib, original front man of the coup, and made friends with members of the Arab League, the Moslem Brotherhood, Egyptian army officers and plain people of the poor native quarter where he lived. With its probing look at Egyptian attitudes, motivations and customs, the book is written more between the headlines than on top of them...
...silver cloud had a grey lining, however, as Harvard must find a new scrum-half to replace South African surgeon Charles Levin, whose dislocated cartilege will keep him out for the rest of the season...