Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RHINO! African melodrama as it should be done-with scenic splendor and crackling humor-tied to a timely story about a hunt for a pair of rare white rhinos...
...working primarily with refugees. Two members are teaching refugees from Rwanda at a camp in the northwestern part of the country, and four others are instructors at a special school for refugees fom southern Africa, located in Dares Salaam. Two members teach seventh and eighth graders in an African middleschool near the city and one is a history tutor at an adult-education college there...
...stole the show was the man who wasn't even supposed to be there, Congo's Premier Moise Tshombe. Though loathed more than ever by most black leaders, Tshombe emerged from the week as almost a hero at home, and the protagonist of a very African episode that made his enemies look utterly foolish...
Splendid Isolation. For months, Host Gamal Abdel Nasser had looked forward to using the conference to stake a claim as Africa's spokesman, black as well as Arab. Tshombe, whose African peers regard him with distaste as Patrice Lumumba's accused assassin and as a white-backed agent of "neocolonialism" as well, was sure to disrupt Nasser's tea party, and Nasser was determined to keep him out. Tshombe was just as determined...
...Congolese press and politicians laid plans for a hero's welcome for Tshombe. They denounced Nasser, playing upon deep-seated black African memories of the Arabs as the continent's slave traders. Tshombe meanwhile was taken under guard back to the Cairo airport to fly to Athens and a weekend in Paris before going back home...