Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yale, most of the 90 Negro undergraduates have joined the campus Black Student Alliance and consider "assimilation" with tradition-oriented student societies an act of Uncle Tomism. Half of Harvard's 180 Negro undergraduates belong to the Association of African and Afro-American Students, which publishes a sophisticated Harvard Journal of Negro Affairs...
...mood is also sweeping U.S. Negro colleges, where coeds increasingly show up for class in African-style dress. Administrators at these schools-most of which are in the South-are increasingly under student fire for appearing to cooperate with local white leaders. "Even among the apathetic students, there's a feeling that they are not going to find solutions with white people any more," says George McMillan, a white journalism teacher at Clark College. "There is more sense of blackness," agrees Spelman College Senior Eulalia Harris, a Negro, "and more desire to make the black community stronger rather than...
Last spring, while Nigeria teetered on the brink of civil war, a diplomat experienced in African affairs, commented, "If Nigeria goes, there is no hope for the rest of Africa...
Nigeria went four months ago. On May 30 the Ibo tribe, which dominates Nigeria's Eastern Region, seceded from the Nigerian Federation and proclaimed the independent Republic of Biafra; and on July 7 a federal attack on Biafra plunged the country into civil war. Nervous African leaders know that no African state was better prepared for independence, and they know that no African state is immune to the problems which beat Nigeria to its knees--those of a tribal society confronting modernization. They are hoping Nigeria will stand again...
Analyzing the government failure, some experts throw up their hands and argue you can't please everyone. They blame the impasse on the British. Colonial administrators, they contend, designed African states for their own convenience, disregarding economic and racial factors. Then the British cut colonial ties and let their fledglings sink...