Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, officials from the South African government said the Harvard visit has significant importance to Mandela's nation...
Mandela's personal security arrangements are handled by the South African Secret Service, according to officials at the South African embassy in Washington...
...thousands of people descend upon Harvard Yard today, expect tight security enforced by the U.S. Secret Service, the South African Secret Service and the local police...
...grandmother explained it as "what they did to black people in the South in the 1960s, they are doing to black people over there." I was told that in order to support our African brethren, we should boycott companies that invested in South Africa and send letters to the South African Embassy demanding the end of apartheid. I heard unfamiliar words used as rallying cries and the names of F.W. DeKlerk and Nelson Mandela thrown around by politicians and activists like Randall Robinson and C. Payne Lucas of Africare...
Once, in an attempt to educate myself, I sat through Cry Freedom, a Hollywood, overly glamorized, overly processed version of the Stephen Biko story starring Denzel Washington. For two hours I stared at the screen expecting some massive revelation about the South African political, social and economic climate. I was sorely disappointed...