Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "Ninety Days," a BBC production, recreates the horror and outrage of a white South African journalist who is imprisoned for a "crime" that is never explained by the authorities...
...retail trade. Some own factories, department stores and small shops; others are just about the only carpenters, plumbers or tradesmen around; still others have become millionaires with large plantations. From the incense-reeking shops of Nairobi's bazaar street to the tiny crossroads general stores of the East African bush, the dark, sharp-featured Asians are a ubiquitous feature of the East African landscape...
...Seated Feeling. Their presence is increasingly resented by the generally less skilled and often unemployed blacks, who see the fruits of uhuru (freedom from colonial rule) falling into the Asians' laps instead of into theirs. The blacks feel that Asians do not open their businesses to capable young Africans, and that they invest their money abroad or send it to relatives. In Kenya, the KANU party of President Kenyatta has scolded the Asians for living out their lives in "a communal cocoon, having only the most superficial contact with their fellow inhabitants." A barefooted Tanzanian farmer, cheering anti-Asian...
...their adopted countries-a fact that confirms black suspicions that they contribute only to their own welfare. When little Malawi became independent in 1964, almost every one of the 11,000 Asians sought the protection of a British passport. With unemployment high in most areas, several of the East African countries have taken steps, both official and unofficial, to ease the Asians out of their dominant commercial role or to expel them altogether...
Intermarriage Urged. Over the past year, the governments of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda have quietly replaced many Asians with blacks in governmental jobs. Asian railway employees have been ousted in "Africanization" drives, have gone on to work in Zambia, where white railroaders have been fired for racial reasons. In Kenya, the government has dropped strong hints that it expects young Indians (who rarely even cross caste boundaries when they marry) to find African mates. Because Kenya has no schoolrooms for 50,000 out of 70,000 qualified students, top private schools run by the Ismaili sects and the Indians have...