Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ethiopian Students Committee has begun a drive that will eventually encompass almost every American university to raise money for the National Literacy Campaign presently being conducted in Ethiopia. The African country has one of the highest illiteracy rates in the world...
...into a "government of national reconciliation." The rousing welcome he received on his tour of Stanleyville (pop. 300,000) showed that Tshombe had succeeded in winning the approval of at least some of the city folks. "Vive Tshombe!" they screamed as his caravan swept through Stanleyville's five African communes. One man even shouted, "Vive le Roi!" At Goma, in rebellion-torn Kivu Central province, Congolese literally hung from the trees to hear Tshombe speak. "Black blood has been flowing like wild animals," he told them. "I say to you: Kazi, kazi [work, work], and let the politicians...
...independent. Good news for Moise? Perhaps. But the mercenaries posed a nightmarish problem for U.S. officials on the scene. They are inclined to help the old Katanga renegade now that he is on the side of Congo unity, but would be acutely embarrassed to find themselves allied with South African racists in the process...
...wins her converts with a doctrinal haggis of African witchcraft and Christian teachings she learned from Church of Scotland missionaries. Alice condemns adultery, polygamy, drinking, smoking, singing dirty songs, dancing for fun. The rallying cry of her followers is "Jericho," a word that she guarantees will protect them from death by turning bullets into water...
...first caught my eye in The Blacks some years ago. A couple of months back I saw him demonstrate perfection in the African play The Blood Knot, which seemed to have been written expressly for him. That was, believe it or not, his twentieth show in three years. Only last week he was playing Othello, though his training and talent do not especially lie in classical drama. And now, in his Boston debut, an O'Neill role for which he is ideally suited...