Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Counterbalance? Seldom was a guest from a small country more welcome. The State Department saw the nationalism of his year-old country and the promise of his African leadership as a possible future counterbalance to rampant nationalism spreading from the Mideast. Beyond such practical prospects, the vigorous, fit-at-48 African leader seemed to give his Nasser-stung hosts a timely, personal reassurance that they have not become the world's abominable rich uncle. He knew all there was to know about the evils of U.S. segregation because, as a young student just in from Africa's Gold...
...Mistress Matimba collapsed after a miscarriage and had to be rushed to a hospital for emergency surgery. The white hospital let her in, but the superintendent bluntly told Patrick he could not see her-"even," as Patrick said later, "if dying.'' Frantic, Patrick transferred her to an African hospital where an operation was performed just in time...
Should a Catholic girl refuse to be sold in marriage, even if the price is right? This question, which is significant in bride-buying Africa, was one of many debated last week by 300 Roman Catholic women from ten African countries who met under UNESCO sponsorship in Lome, steamy capital of the French West African autonomous Republic of Togoland. Balancing the imperatives of religion against the demands of custom, they found bride buying acceptable-if rising prices do not shut out Christian suitors...
Around the world, memories, fears and misgivings greeted the U.S. landing in Lebanon. The memories stirred in all nations that had ever been occupied (a good portion of the world's population), and raised doubts even among those Latin American, Asian and African nations that usually side with the West. The fear came from those who believed that U.S. involvement would increase the danger of war in the Middle East-a fear which the Russians set out to increase. The misgivings came from those who thought the West was backing the wrong forces in the Middle East...
Icing the Icing. In Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, the African Daily News reported "a colorful wedding held in the Msana Reserve [that] ended with the bride delivering a baby boy soon after the cutting of the ceremonial cake...