Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French Presence. France grabbed Morocco from the weak Sultan Moulay Habid in that grand African divvy on the eve of World War I in which Britain got a free hand in Egypt, Spain a piece of northwest Morocco, and Germany a slice of Africa south of the Sahara...
...sent invitations to the world's universities for scholars to attend a three-week seminar on social, religious and political problems, e.g., "The Role of Women in International Life," "The Black World and Modern Civilization." The conference was a success; some 150 students from 18 European, Asian and African countries attended the lectures and discussions, and as many as 1,000 spectators crowded into the priory on weekends. A visiting Catholic bishop sat on the floor and ate mutton from a common bowl with the Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs and a Moslem scholar, listened with a Jewish dignitary...
...correspondent for the Afro-American, whose circulation is greater than any other Negro newspaper, he has covered the Asian Socialist Conference, the Korean peace negotiations at Panmunjon, and the Asian-African conference at Bandung. He has traveled as extensively as any American reporter can behind the Iron Curtain...
...overseas contingent includes Scots international trialist Alan Waddell at scrum half, Argentinian Mike Reynal on the wing, and South African John Chalsty at flank...
Although this is her first attempt at children's fiction, she is the author of African Gamble and No One to Blame, both adventure stories. Boss Chombale is published by Thomas Y. Crowell Company, in New York...