Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Follet. death came suddenly in 1955 for Author James Agee, 45. Born in Knoxville, a graduate of Harvard, Agee spent 16 years as a writer on FORTUNE and TIME, and during the last years of his life worked on the scenarios for such movies as The African Queen, The Quiet One, Face to Face (in which he also appeared in a bit part). With each of his few books-Permit Me Voyage (1934), a collection of poems published when Agee was scarcely out of college; Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), an angry Depression report on sharecroppers...
Jasmine & Satin. In the Moroccan capital of Rabat last week, a strapping black African sentry, resplendent in scarlet uniform, white puttees and black-tasseled bicorn, paced slowly back and forth in front of the brass-studded door that leads into Princess Lalla (Lady) Aisha's green-tiled villa. In the courtyard, a slender fountain tinkled in a garden dominated by four dome-shaped hibiscus bushes; from delicately wrought arbors came the sweet, heavy-bodied scent of flowering blue jasmine...
...unusual in other ways. He was born with all his teeth, she claimed, a sure sign that he had come straight from Heaven. He was preaching the Gospel before he was a year old, and at five, she said, Elias could read the Bible upside down in several African languages. With her husband out of the way, Mother Murambodoro (who had often listened to Protestant missionaries) loudly proclaimed that Elias was Jesus reborn with a black skin, and many an African believed...
Nine months ago, in the township of Harere, on the outskirts of Salisbury, capital of the Central African Federation, little Elias first mounted the pulpit-a Pepsi-Cola crate. The six-year-old boy was handsome, dignified; he exuded authority and wore shoes. His mother, in a flowing white robe, stood behind him chanting softly and clasping her hands. About them gathered a crowd of naked children, zoot-suited men and women in gaily-colored print dresses. Little Elias threw back his head and closed his eyes. "Hear my word!" he cried in Shona, a native dialect. "It was your...
After he became Prime Minister of the new African state of Ghana, ambitious Kwame Nkrumah quickly discovered that the simplest way to deal with political opponents is to get rid of them. When two Moslem party leaders in Ashanti balked at Nkrumah's authority. Nkrumah rushed a bill through Parliament authorizing their deportation (TIME, Oct. 14). After hearing their appeals, Justice H. C. Smith, a Briton, ruled last week that Nkrumah was within his rights. "Since the Ghana constitution contains no safeguarding of fundamental rights." Smith wrote, "the court must uphold the law." The constitution allows Parliament to pass...