Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these "radical" African scholars at the Center for International Affairs must really not go unchallenged...
...headed by Charles Jackson, to close color layouts as late as Saturday morning and still meet the magazine's deadline that night. Thus TIME has featured pages of color on the Apollo 11 triumph, President Nixon's whirlwind tour of Europe and Asia, Pope Paul's African visit and the fantastic Woodstock rock festival. For TIME'S four pages of color on the Oct. 15 Viet Nam Moratorium, 46 photographers in 30 locations shot 300 rolls of film-which was edited, laid out and on its way within 24 hours...
Died. Mongi Slim, 61, Tunisian diplomat who in 1961 became the first African to be elected president of the U.N. General Assembly; of liver disease; in Tunis. A onetime revolutionary who was twice jailed by the French during his country's struggle for freedom, Slim nevertheless ranked as one of Africa's more moderate, pro-Western diplomats. With Tunisia's independence in 1956 he became simultaneously Ambassador to the U.S., Ambassador to Canada and Tunisia's permanent representative to the U.N.; in 1961, by a vote of 96-0, he was elected president of the General...
...affirm black pride, many black Americans have adopted African names. One who sought to formalize the change in court, however, ran into unexpected opposition. Robert Lee Middleton, a 25-year-old student at the New York City Community College in Brooklyn, wants to be known as Kikuga Nairobi Kikugis. He explained to New York Civil Court Judge Irving Smith that he plans to teach African culture after graduation and would like to have a name appropriate to such a career. The petition has just been denied...
Judge Smith found that the words Kikuga and Kikugis seem to mean nothing in any African language. Ruling that the name would mislead the petitioner's future students, the judge said that other black Americans are teaching African culture "without resort to such subterfuge as changing their patronymics." Besides, he went on, Middleton is "a fine American name." Despite the decision, the future teacher is determined to get court approval for becoming Kikuga Nairobi Kikugis. He hopes to find a more receptive judge than Irving Smith-whose immigrant forebears' name was changed when they came from Poland...