Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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David Abernethy '59 of Eliot House, spent last summer with thirteen other American students on a study project in Nigeria, British West Africa. The privately-sponsored project, entitled "Crossroads Africa," included work camps involving American and Africa students in four other West African countries: Liberia, Ghana, Sierra Leone, and the French Cameroons...
...life at UCI is fairly similar to that at an American college, yet the campus still has a distinctively African orientation. It shows up in little ways: the beautiful mahogany and ebony furniture, the stylized Yoruba art work in the Protestant and Catholic chapels. And, more important, it is evident in students' concerns. The Beacon, a UCI journal, features a book review of J.C. Amamoo's The New Ghana and an editorial on the recent conference of the eight independent African states, concluding with a stern protest to the French government should it carry out its proposal to test atomic...
Lamine-Debaghine (whose spectacles and partially paralyzed face have won him the nickname "Mr. Moto") and Minister for North African Affairs Abdelhamid Mahri, an Arabic scholar who sometimes talks like a fellow traveler, argues that the F.L.N. is being pushed into ties with the Communists because of "U.S. support of France...
...Command and General Staff School. During World War II, he moved up to major general, was the Army's top lobbyist on Capitol Hill, did his job so well that Chief of Staff George Marshall refused Ike's request for Persons' services during the North African campaign. "There are few men in the Army I consider irreplaceable," said Marshall, "and Persons is one of them...
...more commercials are seen in movie theaters than on TV) came a parade of chimpanzees peddling tea, a horse in a German kitchen praising a new refrigerator, the Loch Ness monster breathing fire to light a Scotsman's cigarette. American cowboys peddled Scotch whisky in Spanish, and an African witch doctor praised British beer. Victims of auto accidents emerged with their shirts clean because they had been washed with France's Pax soap. "You can always tell the country of origin without a catalogue, even if you don't spot the language." said Judge Thomas P. Olesen...