Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. James Agee, 45. novelist (The Morning Watch), poet (Permit Me Voyage), screen writer (The Quiet One, The African Queen), onetime magazine writer (for FORTUNE) and cinema critic (for TIME); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Foundation has already announced its grants for African studies and will announce its fellowships for Soviet and East European studies shortly...
...into the dust in unhappy South Africa. Last month the Nationalist government packed the High Court (TIME, May 9); last week it undertook to pack Parliament as well. In the Lower House of Parliament, Prime Minister Johannes Strydom introduced a bill that would increase the membership of the South African Senate from 48 to 89 in such a way as to raise the Nationalist membership of the Upper House from 30 to 77, reduce the Opposition (United Party) from 18 seats...
Paternalism. Pétillon stands for "paternalisme," the policy which the Belgians openly proclaim as the secret of their success in the Congo. "The African under stands paternalism." says the Governor with conviction. "It was he who invented it." In the Congo, paternalism means bread but no votes, good government but no opposition; the best Negro housing in Africa but no real freedom of movement. "The emphasis is on economics," says Governor Pétillon. "The fascination of becoming a skilled worker handling precision machinery drives out of the Negro's mind the need for politics...
...churchmen are more aware than the government or the corporations that the half-educated African, stirred by the white man's literature and moved by his religion, cannot always be satisfied by bread and machines alone. The Congolese, or those among them who have climbed fastest from darkness to light, are slowly starting to talk about such verboten things as self-rule and democracy. Their stirrings are not enough to disturb the massive calm of the Belgian administration, or impede the spectacular advance of the Congo economy, but they are perceptible. To some Belgians they are alarming. Says...