Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sunday in Manhattan, and the diplomats of the United Nations had postponed for a day their discussion of France's troubles with her rebellious North African protectorates, Morocco and Tunisia. But fanaticism knows no holidays, and in North Africa itself, Arab nationalists, urged on by the Communists, were busy seeking ways to exploit the latest incident...
...Treasury was empty and the budget unsolved. France, where Crisis is a word rarely out of the headlines, was drifting into the Worst one yet. The country might collapse completely without a U.S. dole. The Indo-China war was going from bad to worse. In the precious North African colonies, the corks were beginning to blow. Finances were in a nightmare tangle...
Another distinguishing feature is the British policy of "non-alienation of land." No native land can be sold to a non-African without the hard-to-get approval of the governor. "In Kenya, hugh areas of the better farm lands have been taken over by whites." This alone, he indicated, has proved considerable cause for unrest...
...confused mixture of race hatred, sporadic riots, torchlight demonstrations, and anti-constitutionalism marks the political situation in the suddenly prosperous South African nation...
John F. Box, 1L who spent last year at the University of Capetown studying South African polities for his thesis, looks to the next five years, and especially to next spring's elections, as a period of determinant crisis...