Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every South African black man over the age of 18 must pay a "head tax" of ?1 ($2.80) per year. Since even a black industrial worker's average yearly wage is only $369, more than 150,000 blacks are jailed every year for failure to pay. Last week South Africa's House of Assembly passed a bill that will nearly double the head tax on blacks this year...
...Asians and Arabs and its 25,000 Europeans (chiefly British and Greek) comprise only 1.5% of the territory's population of 8,800,000, the British wisely made no attempt to maintain absolute white supremacy as European settlers had tried to do in neighboring Kenya and the Central African Federation. Instead, in a bid for racial harmony, the British allotted each constituency three council seats, one for each of the three major racial groups -Asian, European and African. Every voter, regardless of his color, voted for his choice in all three seats...
Reformed Troublemaker. At week's end, as the returns came down the mountains by mulepack, slight, mustached Julius Nyerere, 36-year-old head of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU), slapped his knees with joy. In every reported result, his TANU African candidates and the Asians and Europeans backed by TANU had swept into the council over the white-led United Tanganyika Party, headed by Sisal Millionaire Stephen Emmanuel...
Surrounded by 3,000 cheering African subjects, Prince Karim, the Aga Khan IV, 21-year-old spiritual leader of 10 million Moslems, dedicated a new Nairobi hospital one day last week, then quietly announced his intention to return to Harvard. Before the end of his junior year, he had taken a leave of absence to attend the stricken Aga Khan III, then assumed the throne when his grandfather died in July 1957. Now, said he, "I decided I should lose no opportunity to equip myself for the future...
...conducting some of the country's better orchestras when he was only nine. Later he managed to combine a college career (University of Pittsburgh) with a job as assistant conductor and violinist in the Pittsburgh Symphony. He also learned to master every other instrument in the orchestra, plus African drums (which he plays with one hand and a pencil...