Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AFRICAN CONCERT (Philips) is sung by the Troubadours of Belgium's King Bau-douin-45 Congolese drummers and singers between the ages of nine and 14, who earned the right to their title by delighting the King with a performance of their songs during his 1956 visit to the Congo. Their earlier recording of Luba folk songs and a Mass won them a large international audience. Somehow their leader, Franciscan Father Guido Haazen, makes them sing together with precision and yet seem to be blithely improvising. Theirs are songs for working, praying, playing and dancing. One, sung in Swahili...
...Welensky represented the white African dream. From humble beginnings (prizefighter and locomotive engineer) he rose to power on his dream of a vast Central African Federation composed of Southern Rhodesia, Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia. But last New Year's Eve that dream went aglimmering when the federation collapsed after black majorities won rule in two of the three territories...
...until after 1924, when the British Colonial Office took over control of the colony and the expense of running it, did Chartered begin to reap stable financial rewards. Though it operated no mines itself, it handed out concessions to South African companies. It now owns an interest in most of the territory's mines, which produce 15% of the world's copper; royalties from their operations accounted for $18 million of the British South Africa Co.'s net earnings of $22 million last year...
...company's president, Paul Vychan Emrys-Evans, 70, a former Conservative M.P., has been busily spreading the risks: of total investments of $186 million, only $32 million is now in Northern Rhodesia. The wide-ranging portfolio includes, in addition to British companies, minority holdings in South African gold mines, Italian rubber manufacturing, Australian and New Zealand aluminum, Canada's Hudson's Bay Co., and several U.S. companies. Nevertheless, Chartered is bracing for some less than royal days ahead: it had expected to collect as much as $740 million in royalties on its monopoly mineral rights in Northern...
...Monsters. At eight, in those happy days before TV, Sartre began to write stories of his own, filling copybook after copybook, until "my wrist ached," with wild tales of African jungles and supernatural horrors that made his flesh crawl as he put them down...