Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...South African President Nelson R. Mandela entranced an audience of about 25,000 distinguished guests, students, faculty, staff and community members assembled on Friday afternoon at Harvard's Tercentenary Theatre...
...University bestowed an honorary law degree upon Mandela, and the South African leader honored Harvard both with his presence and with his words in accepting the tribute...
...minute speech, Mandela demonstrated his understanding of the economic problems facing the African continent and his concern for its impoverished people...
...class I was told that Mandela was some sort of political agitator (the word was used disdainfully by one history teacher) jailed for protests and violence. He was a member of the African National Congress, an underground guerilla organization which actively and viciously opposed the white moderate government...
...called Mandela a political prisoner and denounced a government in which the white minority oppressed a black majority. Yet I could never really understand my mother's anger towards the political leadership of South Africa nor her soliloquies on the importance of negritude and the relationships within the African Diaspora. Sure, I was black, but those black people in Africa were different than I was. I could not connect their experience to my own as a black pre-teen who could go anywhere and say anything that I chose. It seemed to me that black people had taken...