Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Carine William's comments (Column, April 22) show the deep, rotten racists core of today's African-American leadership. She states that all European-Americans are responsible for the current problems of the black community...
...Russian government because they were Catholic. My family moved to the United States during the 1930's, where they progressed to just regular poverty and religious discrimination. I grew up in a working-class family of eight and received the same public education that was available to African-Americans in my small Indiana town...
...leisurely at his calabash while pondering each clue until he deduced the culprit. Detecting, in the quintessential sleuth's day, required more than an agile mind; it took time. Of course, times change. Two of fiction's newest detectives have the necessary brainpower: they're young (in their 30s) African-American professionals (a professor and a doctor). These women, however, are so upwardly mobile that they can barely pencil murder into their crammed calendars...
...should not forget that genocide took place in the heart of Africa, where about a million people lost their lives in a cruel civil war. I didn't see Clinton or the U.N. in Africa when that was happening. Now Big Industry smells a potential market in the "rising African countries," and here is Clinton to pave the way. But how can you talk of a renaissance in Africa when in Zimbabwe a sizable percentage of the people between 20 and 30 are HIV positive? VOLKER DOLITZSCH Steffisburg, Switzerland...
...hope it won't take another presidential trip to create an impetus for a positive focus on other revived regions such as Africa. If your story inspired one African youth to run for elected office or encouraged one foreign investor to consider Africa seriously, then it did a great service to a continent almost forgotten in this postcolonial world. DYLAN BORG Melbourne...