Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play was the major event of an evening which included a display of African dress and a panel discussion of African and American Negro literature. A group of students, who seemed amused at their new roles as clothing models, came on stage nation by nation, wearing brilliantly colored and patterned garments. At one point, the audience learned that the two huge white buttons on the top-piece of one girl's garment were an innovation by missionaries who had been displeased with the previous more loose-fitting arrangement. (On the whole, Christianity took a fairly heavy beating last Saturday night...
Hopefully, there will be further presentations of things African by this talented and able group...
...pilgrims came from all over the world. The King and Queen of Malaysia chartered a plane for the hajj; from the U.S. came the widow of Malcolm X. Also on hand was a group of Senegalese who in January began a 3,400-mile walk across the African desert to the Red Sea. At Jeddah on the Red Sea, gateway to Mecca and starting point for the pilgrimage, hajj flights landed every ten minutes round the clock at an airport that normally sees only a dozen commercial flights a day. In and near Jeddah's harbor, more than...
...powers to expand and contract the international supply of money. Replying to that objection, IMF Managing Director Pierre-Paul Schweitzer notes that the size of the money supply is now determined by such hazards as the extent of the U.S. dollar deficit and the amount of South African gold production-and that it would be far better for the world to control its monetary reserves by "deliberate decision...
Nathaniel Nakasa, South African magazine editor and Nieman Fellow, will participate in a symposium on modern African literature and culture at 8 p.m. tomorrow night in the Quincy House Dining Room. The Pan-African students' Organization will also sponsor an open "Freedom Day Dance" at 8 p.m. tonight in the Eliot House Dining Room...