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Word: africanism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Engelhardt and his fellow legislators had overlooked an important point: if the heavy Negro population of Tuskegee and surrounding Macon County provides a political hazard, it also provides the principal economic income of Tuskegee's merchants. In the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church last week, a stomping, whistling crowd of 2,900 Negroes heard Professor Charles G. Gomillion, 57, dean of students at the institute and president of the Tuskegee Civic Association, lay out a strategy for fighting back without violence. "We will buy goods and services only from those who will recognize us as first-class citizens." Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Boycott in Tuskegee | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

...change will add an estimated 6,000 skilled African workers-teachers, medical orderlies, agricultural demonstrators, senior policemen, etc., to the electoral lists. But this would scarcely threaten white control. Under present rules, there are about 50,000 European voters on the rolls v. 800 Africans in a population where blacks outnumber whites twelve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN RHODESIA: Who's Civilized? | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

Arriving in London, he explained disarmingly: "Many of my people cannot read or write. When they buy stamps they will see my picture-an African like themselves-and they will say 'Aiee, look, here is my leader on the stamps. We are truly a free people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COMMONWEALTH: Chilly Reunion | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

Clausen offers his ritual bull's-eyes to Colquhoun, but later makes the agonized confession that he has been an all-night sucker for the beastly magic of a local witch doctor. Hoping to bridge the gulf between European and African knowledge, he has dabbled in mysterious rites (in one, a man was burned to death by no visible flame) and is now desperately afraid for his soul. The fate of this jungle Dr. Faustus is sealed in what the press calls "the great Clausen scandal." Kenya-raised Novelist Huxley (Red Strangers, The Walled City) has written a literate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Faustus in the Jungle | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

Inevitable Rule. Well aware that the members of Kenya's eleven main tribal groups and hundreds of clannish subgroups find little agreement among themselves, many white Kenya colonists stood by confidently awaiting the first signs of schism among the eight African parliamentarians, but the signs never appeared. "The eight of us will differ in matters of detail," said Mboya, "but on the basic question, we don't." Fortnight ago, as Mboya's restlessness was felt more and more throughout the land, penetrating even the Mau Mau detention camps, Kenya's government ordered government tape recorders installed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: A Mile or an Inch | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

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