Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Widow's Weeds. In Paris, finally, she met the man she wanted to marry: John MacBride, "a wiry, soldierly looking man, with red hair and skin burned brick red by the South African sun" (where he had been commander of a volunteer brigade fighting for the Boers against the British). Wrote Sinn Feiner Arthur Griffith to them: "For your own sakes and for the sake of Ireland to whom you both belong, don't get married." But they did, with joy plotting together enough potential terrorism to sink the British Empire. But temperament drove them apart...
...fine day in April 1839, the strapping son of a West African chieftain set off happily down the jungle path that led from the ricefields to his village home. He arrived three years later, the survivor of an almost incredible adventure that had carried him through slavery and mutiny on the high seas to freedom and a place in history. The story of Cinqué and the band of enslaved Africans he led is told with competence in Slave Mutiny, by William A. Owens, a 47-year-old assistant professor of English at Columbia University...
...Liberal Union yesterday called upon the State Department to allow an African Negro student to continue his studies in the United States...
...Bottom. Strong-willed Daniel Malan, returned to power for another five years, is now 78. His heir apparent is even more fanatic: Johannes Gerhardus Strydom, 59, the Nationalist Minister of Lands. The so-called Messiah of Waterberg is hailed by his supporters as "First President of the coming South African Republic." His program seems to call for a stratified New Boer Jerusalem not very different from Plato's Republic: at the bottom, black slaves to hew wood and fetch water; in the middle, alien (i.e., British) traders to deal with petty commerce; at the top, the Boer elite, settled...
...Mexico and the Pacific Northwest, learning at firsthand the ways of Indians and cowhands. He also sandwiched in two trips to Africa with expeditions for Manhattan's Museum of Natural History, came back to paint the famed three-dimensional backdrops for the museum's displays of stuffed African mammals...