Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prospectors Laurence Contat, 37, and Cornelius Oosthuizen, 42, were sitting under a tree in a grassy meadow near the town of Belingwe having a spot of tea. Out in the hot sun around them were their "prospecting boys," African helpers trained to look for unusual rock outcrops. As they sat, recalls Contat, "an African named Chiwaro came in with a rock sample. He didn't think much of it, but it had what Colombian miners call morralla [the characteristic mineral in which emeralds are embedded]. The morralla may open into nothing; but it may also open into clusters...
What about Chiwaro, the African helper whose find led to the discovery of the emerald treasure? He has not been forgotten. The millionaire prospectors have promised him a lifetime pension of $420 a year...
...glance tells that many Americans who are classified as Negro have plenty of European "blood"; white people with Negro blood are harder to distinguish. Their African genes may not affect their appearance and they usually do not know that some of their ancestors "passed." In the Ohio Journal of Science, Sociologist Robert P. Stuckert of Ohio State University attempts to estimate how many white Americans have some African ancestry...
...tribesman who spent a year at Ruskin College, Oxford, Mboya has become increasingly strident in his complaints against British attempts to bring about a gradual "multi-racial'' government in Kenya. Insisting on "parliamentary democracy for the African masses." he lashed out at the Colonial Office's 1957 constitution, which for the first time gave the 6,000,000 Africans the same number of elected seats in the Legislative...
Mboya's leftist London lawyer, D. N. Pritt, Q.C.. the defender of Mau Mau Leader Jomo Kenyatta (now in prison), got the conspiracy charge thrown out on a technicality, and set forth to destroy the reputations of the moderate African nominees who appeared as witnesses for the prosecution. At one he thundered: "Do you hate Africans, or merely despise them?" But somehow, the fireworks...