Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WAIT A MINIM! has held a stage in Manhattan for seven months now, after stops in Johannesburg and London, us South African octet offers well-paced skits even if the targets of its satire are slightly behind the times...
Last month Ibo passengers on West African Airways' London-to-Lagos jet were hauled off the plane and machine-gunned in the northern Nigerian way station of Kano. Pan American's New York-to-Nairobi Flight 150 lived up to the tradition. Last week a simple refueling halt enroute grew into an international incident...
...morning air above Kenya's Tsavo National Park. In the rolling bushland below grazed herds of zebra, kudu, oryx and hartebeest, swishing away flies with their tails. Suddenly, from the middle of a patch of thorn trees, flashed the white flick of an egret, constant companion of the African elephant. It was what the pilot had been looking for. He radioed the position to the ground, and within minutes a helicopter arrived. Two white hunters climbed out and disappeared into the tangle of thorn trees. There was a burst of high-powered rifle shots, a flutter of startled egrets...
...proliferating herds of hippo, buffalo and giraffe add to the problem, and as a result, African game parks are badly overgrazed and their enormous herds are faced with famine. Tsavo's hungry elephants have uprooted entire forests of thorn trees, turned giant baobab trees into twisted wreckage in their search for edible shrubbery. Parts of the Zambezi Valley, according to one conservationist, "look as though an atom bomb had exploded in the area...
...magazine, in turn, has developed a healthy respect for the power of the dictators. Four years ago, Jeune Afrique, which has been banned at least once by almost every African nation, moved off the continent-first to Rome, later to Paris. Staffers, however, still make regular forays into African countries, where many doors are often opened for them that are closed to Western correspondents...