Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Segregation of blacks and whites into separate states v. "racial partnership" was the issue last week in the first election in Britain's new Central African Federation, which is an amalgam of the Rhodesias and neighboring Nyasaland. Sir Godfrey Huggins' Federal Party took its stand on Cecil Rhodes's dictum, "Equal rights for all civilized men." Hugginsmen believe that a color bar is still necessary in primitive Africa, but gradually they hope to remove it, as the Negroes "come of age." Opposing Huggins are the diehard Confederates. Many of Northern Rhodesia's white copper miners...
...Lyttelton announced the first constructive program to remove the causes of Kenya's bitter war against the Mau Mau. Britain will allocate $14 million to finance a far-reaching development plan for African agriculture. The money will do far less good today, after 14 months of bloodshed, than it might have done a year ago, but at least the government's plan looked to the future. The Labor opposition, by contrast, looked only to the past...
...British in Africa seek slowly to guide what Kipling called their "new-caught, sullen peoples'' across the blur of centuries that divides them from the modern world. At worst, British settlers expect to live, at least until the deluge, off the sweat, tears and ignorance of African servitors...
...turned its back on Britain (TIME, Dec. 7). In the south, Boer South Africa talks of becoming a republic, and of leaving the Commonwealth. In between (see map), there is war in Kenya, unrest in Nyasaland, and in the Rhodesias a harassed attempt to build up a Central African Federation...
Leading Labor's attack was a pale, impassioned Bevanite named Archibald Fenner Brockway, son of an African missionary. Staring across the House at Lyttelton, he invoked Oliver Cromwell's terrible injunction to the Long Parliament: "You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!" Though the House was dissatisfied with Lyttelton, these strong words went...