Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Even though, by latest count, 15 other African countries have TV. Among them: the ex-French Congo, Gabon, the Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, the Sudan, Uganda...
Kenya's Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta, chairman of an ad hoc Congo Reconciliation Commission set up by the Organization of African Unity, appealed to "all authorities in the Congo to do nothing that would be inhuman toward civilians in their custody...
David D. Henry, director of the Harvard international Office, was the primary American organizer of the project. The program is similar to the one which Henry developed to bring African students to study at Harvard...
From the depths of the Congolese rain forest came the plaintive voice of Christophe Gbenye, President of the rebels' self-proclaimed People's Republic of the Congo."I did what I could to preserve African honor," he said in a radio message to the continent's nationalist leaders, "and you have left me alone beneath the bombardments of the Americans and Belgians. In the name of Lumumba, I utter a last appeal." But not even the invocation of the martyred leftist was likely to help. For last week the whole rebel cause was collapsing. Incredible...
...professions. But one in every ten is an "oriental" Jew from the Middle East, North Africa or Asia; 200 others are Arabs living in Israel, some of them fervently pro-Nasser. The largest foreign contingent is 250 students from the U.S., and 100 others come from black African nations. Students are supposed to read English, but most teaching is in Hebrew...