Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tried keeping tutorial through the fall but found the combination impossible. "I remember calling once from Chicago to cancel a meeting." And anyway Sigmund wanted to go to South Africa and write a report on segregation in the universities there. "I got as far as Europe, but the South African government refused me a visa so the trip has to be scrapped...
Largely under the liberal pressure of the Colonial Office in London, the Federal government, which was soon dominated by the white settler population of Southern Rhodesia, has allowed reduced segregation, university integration, and limited participation of Africans in government. But the scale and speed of these advances have not satisfied the increasingly articulate nationalists, who fear that if the Federation is accorded dominion status when the question comes up in 1960, the colonialists will take advantage of their independence to suppress African rights. In line with the official policy, originally that of Cecil Rhodes, of giving the vote to every...
...Hastings Banda, who has dubiously honored himself with the title of "extremist of extremists," is the area's chief nationalist spokesmon. Until his return to Southern Rhodesia last summer, there had been no trouble in six years, but since then his messianic influence seems to have encouraged the nationalist African Congress party to turn from politics to militant agitation. This has served to discredit the moderate whites who permitted his return to Rhodesia and to strengthen extremists on both sides...
...anxious to assert its authority and frightened by the recent outbreaks in the Belgian Congo, the Federal government's reaction was hasty and excessive. A state of emergency was declared, the African Congress was banned, and Dr. Banda and many of its leaders were arrested. While these measures may have been necessary to preserve the peace, the use of white Rhodesian reservists in Nyasaland, rather than the British ones available in Kenya, was not needed, and is certain to stimulate bad feeling. Equally unfortunate was the recent forceful expulsion of a visiting Labourite Member of Parliament, who was accused, perhaps...
...also seems inevitable, if there is to be any guarantee that irresponsible elements are not to dominate the Federation. The only conclusion which is consistent both with the economic and social advance of the territory and with the aspirations of the population, is to permit Nyasaland to become an African state within the Federation...