Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...African-American man in our party was accused of being a trouble maker from the previous week, though he had been out of the town for two weeks," the letter reads. "An apology was requested from a man who was identified as the manager. We received no apology. This is not an acceptable response...
...pointed to the non-African Americans in thegroup and said he didn't have a problem withthem," Davis said. "Then he pointed to me and oneother African-American man in the group and saidhe had problems with...
...representative ethnically, socio-economically and intellectually. There has been noticeable success: Demographically, The Crimson is much more diverse today than six years ago. I counted at least 30 minority students among the 82 Crimson executives, including a female Asian-American vice president, an Asian-American managing editor and an African-American business manager...
That portrait is real, all right, in places like Nigeria, Somalia, Burundi, Sudan, Kenya. But it is no longer the whole picture. Academics, diplomats and bankers who do business there talk seriously these days about an African renaissance. A grand word, it turns out, for the slow, fragile, difficult changes that are giving the continent a second chance. But the description fits. Out of sight of our narrow focus on disaster, another Africa is rising, an Africa that works: the Africa of Mozambique and Mali and Eritrea and Ghana, of South Africa and Uganda, Benin and Botswana, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast...
CAPE TOWN: You gotta problem with Nelson Mandela hanging out with Fidel Castro and Muammar Ghaddafi? Go throw yourself in a pool. That was the South African president?s message today at a joint press conference with President Clinton...