Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...estate. They cut off the head of a Somali cattle herdsman, presumably to terrorize the Somali tribesmen who are trickling south to help the British against the Mau Mau. As the raiders withdrew, they were closely harassed by a patrol of the regular Negro King's African Rifles. When the gunsmoke cleared, three Mau Mau lay dead. One of them, in a stolen, red-tabbed British colonel's uniform, was Simba, the Lion...
...London, Enid Margaret Cripps, 32, youngest daughter of the late Sir Stafford Cripps, austerity Chancellor of the Exchequer, joined a slight, spectacled law student for an announcement to the press: they were going to be married in July. He was Joseph Manuel Appiah, thirtyish, son of an African tribal leader and personal representative in Britain of Gold Coast Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah. They had met at a party in London two years ago. As for the problems of an interracial marriage, they had the approval of both families and expected no social difficulties on the Gold Coast, where they will...
...inevitable end of the progress toward social equality of white and Negro: intermarriage. To some the mixing of bloods is desirable. To many more, especially those who know what the word "genes" means, it is abhorrent . . . The Negroes imported to America were often sold by their black African superiors. In their aboriginal society they were the least intelligent, the least vigorous and were, with very few exceptions, the slaves of the other blacks...
...whip up Northern enthusiasm for his independence movement. Apparently he had forgotten, or did not care, that the proud Moslem emirs of the Northern region have no taste for independence if it means exchanging their British masters-who in the main are just, if aloof-for a group of African Oxonians recruited in the coastal cities...
...Lady of Fatima, whose famous shrine in Portugal is rivaling even Lourdes in popularity (TIME, May 14, 1951)As the statue, on tour of the world since the spring of 1947, moved through the streets in a gilded carriage, Cariocas followed, cheering and weeping. Even the devotees of African white magic came out of Rio favelas (hillside slums). Little girls, dressed as angels and as the Virgin herself, stood along...