Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dialogue with Mecca. The World Council of Churches supports a continuing program of grass-roots-level contact with Moslems. It recently conducted an interfaith conference in Ceylon that was attended by Moslems; in Africa the Council helps finance seven minister-scholars who are specifically assigned "to inform African Christians about their Islamic neighbors...
...reticence. The political situation in northern Africa has long been touchy: both Morocco and Mauritania claim the Spanish Sahara. Occasionally, they have gone so far as to threaten to back up their claims with force. Moreover, Spain has been under mounting pressure in the U.N. to give up its African possessions. So there was little point in making the Sahara suddenly sound attractive...
Crimson two-miler Jim Baker may not receive a victory as a homecoming present. Al Altman of Oxford is the South African record holder at three miles and would be a sure bet in the two mile. If Alman runs the mile, he will have to battle both Shaw and Yale's 4:08 miler, Steve Bittner...
...first officers were elected in the spring of '63. An African student, Martin Anochie '64, was elected president. Anochie was a very persuasive spokesman and, as Travis Williams put it, "a brilliant politician. He anticipated Skokely Carmichael and even, to some extent, Malcolm...
...were the leaders. Others involved were Epps (then 1G), Claude Weaver '65, and Thomas Atkins (1G). A new concept was being formulated, of which Armah was the most articulate spokesman. It was Armah who originated both the name of the organization, AAAAS, and the membership clause -- "open to African and Afro-American students currently enrolled at Harvard and Radcliffe...