Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment came when ex-Premier René Mayer, an influential industrialist (identified with the Rothschild interests) and a member of Mendès' own Radical Socialist Party, took the rostrum. Mayer, whose constituency is Constantine in Algeria, was against Mendès' attempts to negotiate a North African settlement with the nationalist rebels. He was plainly on the side of the French settlers, and brushed aside talk of cruelty on the part of the French forces. "Repression always has a cruel aspect," he said coolly. "But this time it has been just. It was indispensable in order that...
...Englishmen, a West Indian, and Irishman, an Australian, a South African, a Bermudan, and ten Americans attended Monday's meting...
Over half the colony's people are of African descent and have preserved their feelings of cultural loyalty to the homeland from which their ancestors came as slaves. As the first African of noble birth to visit British Guiana in more than 200 years, Eze seemed to personify the new vitality and youth of Africa...
...expresses a preference for African tribal costume over the light-grey, pinstriped suit and checkered vest which American college life has inflicted on him. But otherwise, he has great admiration for America and Americans. Among other things, he has developed a keen liking for ice cream, particularly vanilla, even though Nigeria leads the world in the production of chocolate-yielding cacao...
Despite his success in the United States. Eze knows his future lies in Africa. The Dark Continent is stirring with new life, but it faces many problems. Men like Eze will be Africa's leaders, and as he told an African student gathering in Washington in 1953, "By our example, we can restore hope to a frustrated people. Our lives can be important in the history of an emergent race, and we must rededicate them to action in the cause of Africa. This rededication is long overdue...