Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marchers were to follow the same route attempted two weeks ago from Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopalian Church in Selma, across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where the first march was bloodily halted by helmeted state troopers and mounted possemen, then onto a four-lane, divided stretch of U.S. Highway 80. All but 300 marchers were to drop back at a point 17 miles out of Selma, where the highway narrows to a two-lane, 20-mile strip of piny woods and dismal marshes...
Africa's prophets of revolution have come on hard times. They once dreamed of bringing the whole continent under the leftist banner through subversion, sloganeering and bullying, but it is becoming apparent that a growing majority of moderate African states want no part of their plans. Only a fortnight ago, the Organization of African Unity, the league they had hoped to dominate, rejected the radicals' demands for a hearing for the Congolese rebels, and last month a bloc of 13 former French colonies met in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott to give their official support to the legitimate...
Last week four of the noisiest radicals - Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Sekou Toure of Guinea, Algeria's Ben Bella and Mali's Modibo Keita-met in the dusty West African capital of Bamako for an emergency conference to see what could be done. Answer: not much...
Nkrumah's main worry was a rebellion of another kind. To promote his sagging pretensions as Africa's leader, he has invited the heads of all African states to a giant pan-African summit conference in September-and is pouring more than $4,000,000 into a project called "Job 600," a complex of halls and theaters being built in Accra to accommodate the conference. But his reputation for subversion has put him in such bad odor that many moderate Africans now threaten to boycott the summit...
...addition to Swahill, the volunteers practice teaching skills and are studying current African affairs. The teachers--six men and four women--and PBH officials chose St. John and Elise Forbes '65 as its leaders earlier this month...