Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...build a strong new dominion, rich in metals and farmlands, and able to protect itself from the black nationalism of the Gold Coast and the white nationalism of South Africa. Last week, barely half a year since the House of Commons gave the ambitious project its blessing, the Central African Federation was jarred by racial unrest among black man, Boer and Briton. 69,000 Boers. Sir Godfrey Huggins, 70, the wiry little surgeon who first conceived the notion of lumping the Rhodesias and Nyasaland into one big Central Africa (TIME. Sept. 21), was beset on both sides by black...
...Huggins' opposite flank stand the bitter leaders of 6,500,000 Africans. They oppose the Federation because it i) removes the benevolent hand of the British Colonial .Office, and 2) transfers "native affairs" to a Central African Parliament dominated by local whites. Fewer than 500 Negroes are eligible to vote in next month's elections, but many more are threatening to make their protests felt through strikes in the copper belt and a campaign of passive resistance. The Negroes have the sympathy, if not the active support, of many British Laborites...
...Negro locations. This meant withdrawing British infantrymen from their battle stations in the mountains, but Commander in Chief General Sir George Erskine could not resist the clamor. Six hundred young Inniskilling Fusiliers, in jungle-green uniforms and black berets, marched into Nairobi last week with orders to screen every African in the city. "Nairobi wants to rid itself of between 15,000 and 20,000 Negroes who are living in the city without permission," said Police Chief John Timmermann. The cops admitted that they could not keep any more Kukes in jail because "our prisons and detention camps are already...
...eighth anniversary of the United Nations, Prime Minister Daniel Malan's Nationalist Party warned last week that South Africa will walk out of the U.N. if India and other Asia-African nations persist in bringing up motions to condemn South Africa's bitter apartheid (racial segregation). Said Malan: "The U.N. is a failure, a cancer eating at the peace and tranquillity of the world. Unless it is radically reformed, it should disappear from the face of the world...
...eyebrows. In return for coal, crude oil and corn, France will send Russia 100,000 tons of rolled-steel products, 3,000 tons of lead, 3,000 tons of cork, six 5,000-ton freighters, 25 steam boilers and 200 cranes plus several shipments of textiles and North African fruits...