Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Most African nations have achieved their independence only to find themselves too broke to enjoy it. Not Zambia, the copper-rich state that changed its name from Northern Rhodesia at independence ceremonies last year. Riding a world copper boom that has brought $400 million into the country in the past year alone, President Kenneth Kaunda is in the enviable position of having more money than can be spent...
...White Flagpole. Like many African leaders, Kaunda is a fervent advocate of nonalignment, and to keep Zambia out of the cold war, he refuses to accept large doses of either American or Russian aid. He is also a passionate African nationalist, and recently admitted that he stands at attention whenever he hears the national anthem-even if he has to climb out of bed. Yet he takes care to keep post-independence compulsions, such as changing the old colonial street names, within reasonable bounds. Last week, for example, the mining town of Broken Hill officially changed the name of Baden...
...Africa's underdeveloped new nations have developed it is a taste for conferences−preferably fullscale, formal summits complete with swarms of presidential airplanes, motorcades sirening through flag-draped streets, and earphones for simultaneous translation. So far this year, there have been nine major conclaves on the African continent, and there would have been more but for the simple confines of the calendar. There is just no way for everybody to talk at once...
...affair, originally scheduled for Algiers in June, had to be postponed until Nov. 5 because of the overthrow of Ahmed ben Bella. But shortly after the new date had been set, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah suddenly put off his own spectacular−the 36-nation Organization of African Unity summit until Oct. 21, which was so close to the Algiers summit that many leaders might not be able to attend both. With a vast sum invested in an enormous modern conference hall and 65 presidential villas, Bouteflika had come to Accra to talk Nkrumah into setting a less conflicting...
...most deceptive woman I knew," she reflected, "even used to say 'ouch' when someone bumped into her blip [falsies]." Today's dances reminded her of "some African rite of blip [circumcision]." So far, her lip has been blipped at least 100 times. "It's beginning to sound like a razor-blade commercial," she complains happily. Unblipped, she sounds like a mildly bawdy grandmother. To her, the Golden Gate Bridge seems like "a great big glorious G string." She opined that Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman's wedding reception "lasted longer than the marriage...