Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Medical student Bryer has played for the Oxford University Greyhounds; Business student Lindsay played for the University of Cape Town; and Chalsty represented Transvaal, runners-up last year in the South African inter-provincial championships...
...AFRICAN DAM will be built at Ka-riba Gorge on the Zambezi River. Plans projected by the Central African Federation (TIME, Sept. 21, 1953) call for a $240 million dam that will have a 400-ft. wall backing up a lake 150 miles long. The first six generators to provide power for developing the mineral-rich area (uranium, copper, chrome, asbestos) will be on the line by 1961. Eventual power capacity...
FLAMINGO FEATHER, by Laurens van der Post (341 pp.; Morrow; $3.95). A bloody envelope, a pink-and-white feather, a sailor's cap, a murdered Negro-what does it all add up to and how does it tie in with the South African firm of Lindel-baum & Co., wine and spirit importers? Thanks to the throb of distant tom-toms (which seem to be saying Mau Mau), the least alert reader can guess that the spirits imported by evil Mr. Lindelbaum are more vodka and voodoo than honest Scotch. South African-born Novelist van der Post (Venture...
...very life depends on the swing of 10 or 20 votes. Biggest is the alcohol lobby, which keeps French winegrowers, beet farmers and distillers producing twice the alcohol the French can drink and forces the government to buy the surplus at four times the world price. The North African lobby, run by Senator Henri Borgeaud, took alarm when Mendès tried to reduce the colons' control of the local police. As a result, Algeria's Rene Mayer and 19 other Radical Socialists deserted their own Premier and brought his downfall...
Nonetheless, I am in full agreement with your view that Harvard should make a special attempt to "offer undergraduates (and also graduates) a chance for basic study in the field of" African affairs. Indeed, I would go further than this: Harvard should begin to consider the possibilities of establishing an Institute on African Studies, in spite of the fact that "Boston University has recently started such a program." There is no harm in having two Institutes of this sort in this part of the country, for this is one area of study to which one can easily apply the saying...