Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent deaths of some forty black Africans in civil disturbances in Nyasaland contrasts sharply with the image of a harmonious multi-racial state which Britain had in view when she formed the Central African Federation...
Barrels & Boulders. Into Blantyre he sent four Dakota DC-3 planes carrying troops from the white Royal Rhodesia Regiment; two battalions of the black King's African Rifles soon followed. After one plane landed at Fort Hill, near Karonga, the nationalists covered the airfield with barrels, stumps and boulders, effectively putting it out of action. In Blantyre police and rioters collided in the streets, and blacks, hiding in the tall grass along a stretch of road that was promptly tagged the Missile Mile, ambushed and stoned cars. At Lilongwe the King's African Rifles fired on a crowd...
...Zambesi River, forming the border between the two Rhodesias, the entire African work force of 6,600 at the great Kariba Dam (TIME, Dec. 15) went out on strike. Southern Rhodesia, otherwise least affected by trouble because its Africans have always been the least militant, was determined to set an example of toughness for its neighbors. Prime Minister Sir Edgar Whitehead mobilized the white population, slapped a strict censorship on the press, and declared a state of emergency; in one 2 a.m. roundup, his cops grabbed 250 members of the African National Congress and stuck them in jail, incommunicado...
...Arguin Island, off the Atlantic coast of French West Africa, in a 15-ton ketch called Daisy of Maldon, plan to do hydrographic surveys for the Admiralty, poke archaeologically at a 18th century Portuguese fort, skindive for wrecks, and test the effects of a four-man jazz combo on African ears. "Also," says Expedition Leader Anthony Churchill (no kin), "we may try distilling gin from seaweed." Oxford's Exploration Club is sending out a group which will exhaustively classify the flora and fauna in a mountain-locked Tanganyika valley...
Banging the Pad. During World War II, Gleason landed in Lisbon with the Office of War Information, used to delight in driving German generals from nightclubs by playing fumble-thumbed jazz on a piano backed up by a Vichy French clarinetist, an English bass man, and a West African drummer. He caught on with the Chronicle in 1950, now lives with his wife and three children in a red-shingled house beset by his 3,000-album record collection, which grows and coils from room to room. As he listens and listens, he hammers out the beat...