Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sudan in 1899, after an Anglo-Egyptian army defeated Mahdi's followers at the battle of Omdurman. At first both London and Cairo shared the administration, but in 1925 the British kicked their partner out. Egyptian independence left Sudan as the northern bulwark of Britain's East African Empire. Sudan was Cairo's fief in the days before the Mahdi; more important, it controls the headstreams of the Nile. Cairo's policy is to unite the Nile valley from source to estuary, i.e., to annex Sudan. Britain's counterproposal: Sudanese independence, if possible within...
...needs [foreign] capital, and will not get it if Strijdom becomes Prime Minister . . ." With Malan's backing, Dönges won. To soften the blow to the Boer fanatics in the party, Malan delivered a two-hour lecture full of surefire sniping at the British crown. "The South African Parliament," he thundered, "can abolish the monarchy with one vote. If our appeal court judges declared a [Boer] republic invalid, I hope I would still have enough breath left in my body to break such judges . . . " He added, as if to explain his choice of Dönges, "A republic...
...German," said Berlin-born Arie Kraemer, another of the Israeli refugees, "and now I want to take things up where they were dropped in 1933. What do I have in common with those people there? I feel nothing for those Asiatic and African Jews who swarm into Israel...
Corder: I'm glad you're interested in Africa. You know we have 15 million people of African descent here in this country...
...save his pursuer undue trouble, Kimathi politely replied (in a letter to a local newspaper in Nairobi): "I shall be away from Kenya in November and December visiting Uganda, the Sudan and Egypt. After that, I attend a Pan-African conference in Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia. (Signed) Kimathi, Marshal and Commander-in-Chief. Defense Council, Land Freedom Army...