Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Premier Strydom is not ashamed of his country's racial behavior (see box); in fact, he would like to export his policies to the rest of Africa. Last week, the Prime Minister of South Africa's immediate neighbor to the north, Britain's big new Central African Federation (composed of Northern and Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland), made it clear where he stood...
Since the South African government put the Bantu Education Act into effect last spring, scores of such schools have sprung up. especially in the area around Johannesburg. Though the Bantu Act did not actually deprive South African Negroes of their regular schools, it imposed a curriculum that was designed to do nothing less than to convince every Negro child that he is inferior. Last April, thousands of students boycotted their schools in protest. The Minister of Native Affairs, Hendrik F. Verwoerd, one of the architects of apartheid, retaliated by closing the boycotted buildings, thus leaving some 7,000 children without...
Last week the African National Congress and the African Education Movement added a new wrinkle to their bootlegging of knowledge. They started up nine "clubs" where children can gather for lessons. The pupils call themselves "members/' the teachers are "group leaders," the classes are "meetings." By next fall these new clubs hope to have 20,000 children learning their history, geography and languages through quiz games and "talking newspapers," their 3 Rs through songs ("A for Africa, B for Ball. We are happy...
...Britain's West African colony of Nigeria, where men buy their wives and thereafter own them, the price scale got out of hand after World War II when soldiers came home with the Crown's mustering-out pay in their pockets. Soon they had to pay as much as $600 for an educated girl, $450 for an illiterate. Since this was far beyond the means of the average young tribesman, the Nigerians asked their British rulers to impose price controls on wives. The British stiffly refused. Last week a committee appointed by the Eastern Nigerian government to bring...
Fairweather's Friends. The anti-Tau-rum faction mobilizes under its natural leader, Washington's leading witch-hunter, Senator Jason Ransom. When an over-Taurumed African violet is left by accident in Ransom's car. and turns into a "huge writhing mass," the Senator, envisaging a "Red assassin," empties his revolver into the back-seat brush. Soon he is alerting his colleagues, "I can hardly believe the unbelievable extent of this conspiracy," and grabbing scare headlines, e.g., "RANSOM SAYS REDS PLAN ATTACK ON U.S. CURRENCY...