Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want your head!"they screamed, but Dick McCausland, with an arrow in his arm, valiantly fought them off and retained his head. The Wakamba, 600,000 strong, supply one-third of the rank & file, perhaps half the NCOs in both the Kenya police and the King's African Rifles. "If the Wakamba have now gone Mau Mau," gloomed one weary settler, "the position of Kenya may become desperate...
...Fire-Raisers, by Marris Murray. A vivid, moody story about a South African valley and its willy-nilly incendiaries (TIME, April...
Since 1945 Britain has poured billions into African development. Spread among so many who need so much, it sparked no great boom, yet in copper-rich Northern Rhodesia, one town grew so fast that its public-health officials were temporarily officed in a disused public lavatory, with boards nailed over the toilet seats to provide desks and chairs. Across the continent, Gold Coast and Nigeria are becoming useful dollar earners and an important British market...
...year, Brazil has profited from crop failures. The coffee and cocoa price boom, plus tight restrictions on imports, has changed Brazil from a debtor nation nine months ago to one that has a trade surplus of almost $370 million. Cocoa prices went up 112% after the failure of the African crop. Though frost cut Brazil's coffee exports 15%, prices went up 50%. Net additional profit to Brazil: $165 million...
...George Shearing. What they heard, however, could hardly be compared with the old Shearing. It was a circus, with Shearing the ring-master. Whenever he played his old numbers--which was rarely--they had a heavy, dance-band beat. Most of his pieces were novelty selections, featuring everything from African drums to a high-pitched, over-amplified electric harmonica...