Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rest of black Africa is concerned, the trade pact only proved that Banda is a "traitor to his race." In the past few weeks, he has been condemned and cursed from the Zambezi to the Niger and beyond, and the Organization of African Unity has even threatened to throw out Malawi as long as he is there. Banda is unimpressed. Last week he went before his Parlia ment to answer his critics with a quotation from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: "There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats...
...wheat and soy beans. Despite the worldwide oil embargo, Rhodesia gets all the oil it needs from its good friend-and embargo breaker-South Africa. It also keeps its export market alive through agents in South Africa, in the Portuguese colonies of Angola and Mozambique and in the black African nation of Malawi (see following story). The Rhodesian pound may have been declared worthless on world mar kets, but Rhodesian mines turn out enough gold to keep the country in international spending money...
...that if they want schools they must pay for them," says Government Planner Roger Howman. Ineffective as the sanctions have been or are likely to be, the world has not as yet devised a more workable form of pressure against Rhodesia. In Cairo last week, the leaders of five African nations concluded a so-called "mini-sum mit" on Rhodesia by demanding that Smith be overthrown by force of arms. Such demands have been heard before in Africa; they are not only demagogic but silly. No responsible government gives serious thought to a war against Rhodesia...
There isn't much that a small African country can do nowadays to call attention to its cultural sophistication, but almost any attempt deserves applause. This month the Republic of Togo is issuing a series of postage stamps bearing the likenesses of Bach, Beethoven, Debussy and a composer named Edward Kennedy Ellington. It is all very flattering to the Duke, but it would be a mistake for the people of Togo-or anywhere else-to think that this honor stamps him as a classic of the past. If anything, the Duke, at 67, is writing more jazz and writing...
...African Scholarship Program...