Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lubumba River), Stanleyville will revert to its pre-Belgian name Kisangani, and Leopoldville, the capital, will become Kinshasa-a corruption of the Bafununga phrase for "Why do you ask?" The result is bound to be several years of nominal confusion, but at least the cause of African nationalism has been served...
...Association of African and Afro-American Students last week elected Hubert E. Sapp '67 of Eliot House and Augusta, Georgia, president for 1966-67. Other officers elected were Gall Snowden '67, vice-president, Chandra Saldi '67, secretary, and Robert C. Scott '67, treasurer. Also elected to the executive committee were Charles J. Hamilton '69, Jeffrey P. Howard '69, Charles F. Lovell '68, and Elvin Montgomery...
...last, curt medical bulletin ("Shortly after 8 a.m., Sir Winston Churchill died at his London home"), Charles McMoran Wilson was his confidant and companion. He traveled 140,000 miles with Churchill, watched him grapple with Stalin and Roosevelt, nursed him through pneumonia in the North African campaign and the series of strokes that punctuated and palsied his postwar comeback as Prime Minister...
...vaccinated children might spread the infection to pregnant women. The researchers' task was to weak en the virus, and strike a delicate balance, leaving it infectious for those who are vaccinated, but noninfectious for their contacts. They decided to domesticate the virus in cultures of kidney cells from African green monkeys...
...returning to Harvard, almost half of V.T.A.'s participants have written theses dealing with Africa or have gone away to graduate school in African Studies. This year, one former member is going to the Ivory Coast as a geologist, another is in Zambia as an educational evaluator, a third is working with African students...