Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BLOOD KNOT links two South African half brothers in a twisted, tender but tormenting embrace that involves both races and the human race...
...followers call it "living death." For heading the African National Congress, an organization dedicated to passive resistance against apartheid, the South African government five years ago banished Albert John Luthuli to his 25-acre sugar farm near the Zulu village of Groutville and to the little town of Stanger. Since then he has won the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize and quietly kept up his stance of resistance, although he was forbidden to speak or write for publication...
Basis for the new ban: the Minister of Justice, who under the law need not furnish proof, declared himself "satisfied" that Luthuli had engaged in "prohibited" activities and espoused the "cause of Communism." He also linked Luthuli to other leaders of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu, currently on trial for their lives on charges of sabotage...
...buys a look at the recently discovered 1,000-year-old Sudanese Madonna. You can watch a New York harnessmaker make a saddle and West Virginians blow glass. At the Singer exhibit, you can see jeweled woolen fabrics that cost $1,200 a yard. You can walk through the African pavilion, see Watusi dancers and royal Burundi drummers and have your eyes opened to a dozen nations you never knew existed, and a year or so ago you were right...
...noon and end at dawn after a night of composition at the piano. He keeps up his composing regimen even on tour, and many recent additions to his enormous output are directly inspired by his travels. The bridge between his early Bird of Paradise and his recent Little African Flower spans more than 1,000 compositions, among them such triumphs as Mood Indigo, Solitude and Black, Brown and Beige-and though his form has expanded radically, his substance has never drifted far from jazz. "Le jazz, c'est moi," the Duke seems to say, and students of his music...