Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard-Radcliffe Association of African and Afro-American students this week opened a "Freedom Workshop" at the Cambridge Community Center...
Further, the painful conflict of loyalties between Smith and the Queen may well deplete Rhodesia's civil service and army. The rigors of seige will surely weaken the government, making it prone to rash and violent repression. In such a situation weakness and repression, the African nationalists would have a chance at power...
However, South Africa has the means and may have the will to keep white Rhodesia out of the abyss. It could stabilize Rhodesia's pound and might tide Rhodesian farmers and industrialists over to better times. If worse came to worse, South African troops could quell disorders in Rhodesia...
...answer to this question depends not only on white Rhodesians and black Rhodesians, but also on their white African neighbors and their black African neighbors, on Britain, the United States, Russia, France, and China. For the one certain thing about UDI is that the declaration, made for the purpose of letting Rhodesia settle its own affairs without Britain, has had the ironic effect of turning Rhodesia into a major international problem in which many countries may well intervene...
...this reason that many African nationalists wanted UDI as much as the whites who took the plunge. Without UDI, the nationalists, bitterly feuding among themselves, seemed under the firm and indefinite control of the white government's efficient police and army. Britain, as sovereign, warded off the worst attacks in the Commonwealth and the United Nations. The perpetual prospect of fruitful negotiations forestalled any effective sanctions or ostracism which might make white Rhodesians hurt...