Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign students in the U.S. from Nigeria, West Africa ... A statement made by Chancellor Adenauer runs thus: "We are not an African tribe, but a Central European nation proud of its country...
...taught the Chancellor that the African tribesmen are not proud of their country? ... I know that Chancellor Adenauer will make a good leader in Germany, but I suggest he minds how he uses words when he is in an angry mood...
...read "Equal rights for all responsible men," and themselves judge who is responsible. Last week, sipping orange juice at Government House, Colonial Secretary Lyttelton came close to endorsing their view. "It is quite clear," he said, "that any modern form of franchise here would mean Europeans being swamped by African voters. That would mean a complete arrest of progress ... at worst a reversal. The oversea investor would be chary of risking his money. If we stand still, we get constitutional arthritis and risk losing the cooperation of the African - and his labor." His solution appeared to be a vague hope...
Whites cheered Lyttelton's statement; yet most Negro leaders were smilingly unperturbed. Explained Harry Nkumbula, a classmate of the Gold Coast's Prime Minister Nkrumah and chief of Northern Rhodesia's African National Congress: "The so-called 'swamping' is inevitable . . . Time is on the Negroes' side...
...from her father, a New York leather manufacturer, she got her title with her second husband, Italy's Count Carlo di Frasso. A fervent believer in the strenuous life, she once hired prizefighters to entertain her guests! joined Cinemactor Gary Cooper on a big-game safari into the African jungle, with the late Mobster Bugsy Siegel set out in a schooner to search for a buried treasure off Costa Rica. When death came, the Countess was in full re galia: a full-length mink coat covered her, $500,000 worth of jewels were on her person...