Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Risks & Perils." As on the powers of the presidency, De Gaulle was firm to the point of bluntness. He had no rigid conception of what the colonial federation should be, nor was he against allowing the federation to form alliances with other African states in "a vast community of free peoples." As he put it, "the work that has been started is immense and new: to build an ensemble on the basis of spontaneous acceptance [by France itself] and the overseas territories . . . of an association adapted to the realities of the modern world...
...strode out of the Palais Royal, announced that he would visit French West Africa and Madagascar to sell his program in person before the people troop to the polls to vote yes or no next month. He was counting on the fund of good will he had earned among Africans with his wartime Free French proclamations from Brazzaville on the Congo, and on a dawning African awareness of the possibility of a more fruitful future in partnership...
...Africa's most powerful political party, the Rassemblement Démocratique Africain, and pledged allegiance to the French Communists and their fight against "the forces of imperialism." Thus encouraged, the Communists began to infiltrate the R.D.A., but so incited its members that bloody riots erupted. The following year, African Deputies in the French Assembly broke with the Communists. Today the influence of Communism is negligible in the political hierarchy of French West Africa...
...have studied the principles of socialism, Communism, the M.R.P., the European Unionists, and we have adopted principles which correspond to the needs of Africa today." Chief need of Africa: "Lots of capital. But to attract it we must inspire confidence in investors. Our responsibility is to inform the African people of their responsibility in this matter...
...education there has been no such spectacular progress. Illiteracy is still enormous. Only 13.5% of the children go to school, and the whole area has only one university-the University of Dakar in Senegal, which has fewer than 1,000 students. But the African leaders are opening new schools every day, preparing for a future that seems destined to follow a pattern of its own. Except among a few Berbers in Mauritania, Nasserism has no appeal; and though it is fashionable in Abidjan for ladies to have a picture of Nkrumah's face woven into their dresses, the example...