Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Empire but the birth cries of Commonwealth that are heard round the world. They were heard a few weeks ago when Singapore, once proud bastion of Empire, became an autonomous state. They will be heard again in a year or two when Nigeria and Rhodesia, Britain's largest African possessions, assume full freedom. The process is continuous; the Commonwealth has many potential members. And if the 19th century sun never set on the Empire, the 20th century's satellites have a Commonwealth country always in view...
...mood there that she does in Britain. Shortly after Ghana's independence, Prime Minister Nkrumah substituted his own picture for the Queen's on postage stamps. He explained disarmingly: "Many of my people cannot read or write. When they buy stamps, they will see my picture -an African like themselves-and they will say, 'Aiee, look, here is my leader on the stamps. We are truly a free people!'" Other African leaders have given fair warning that, "if it is ever a choice between loyalty to Africa and loyalty to the Commonwealth, then Africa will...
...that binds Commonwealth members has impressive reality. A Canadian will often feel some strange, inarticulate blood link with a New Zealander or a South African or an Indian that he does not feel with an American. One result has been the close association in world affairs between Canada and India. In Washington, Canada's Ambassador to the U.S. is able to explain to the State Department some particularly obscure Indian move on the world scene. When he spoke to the Indian Parliament last year, Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker was heard attentively and respectfully as he allayed...
...helplessly drunk white man, unload the problem on two gentle and respectful native policemen. Such cruelty and callousness exist independent of color, but the failings of Jacobson's whites show with merciless clarity against a black background. In the book's best story, a young white South African who has migrated to London anticipates with dread the visit of his countrified mother. It is even worse than he expects; she is a liberal on the matter of race, and she turns up with a Negro college student she has met on the boat. Could...
...society by a standard brand of spiritual malaise, who comes to a strange town to die and melodramatically does. But the high spots outnumber the soft ones. In a class with Nadine Gordimer (Six Feet of the Country, A World of Strangers), Author Jacobson, 30-year-old white South African who now lives in England, has emerged as one of the troubled continent's best novelists...