Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sudden, savage coup against the ruling Arab minority, once-torpid Zanzibar has become an island of fear. Bands of tough government cops, armed with Russian-supplied burp guns, prowl the land in search of "enemies of the state." Hundreds of Arabs have been marched off their property by African land-grabbers; more than 2,000 prisoners are crammed into hastily built detention camps...
Zanzibar's slide into the Communist camp has been watched with dismay but little action from Washington and London. Though the British publicly pooh-pooh the suggestion that tiny Zanzibar (pop. 315,000) is becoming an African Cuba, they alerted mainland East African governments to the danger of subversion. When the U.S. Ambassador to Kenya, William Attwood, chimed in with a similar warning that Zanzibar should be "a source of concern to Africans," the Revolutionary Council took umbrage. Last week it peremptorily demanded the removal of a $3,000,000 U.S. space-tracking station, one of 16 strung around...
...told that our school may become a model not only for secondary schools in the Western region of Nigeria, but for other African countries as well," he said...
...amused and dismayed to find in the April 7 CRIMSON that six appointments in the Linguistics (and related) Department "extend the University's linguistic coverage" to the point where "the only major area still without a Faculty expert will be African linguistics . . ." Such self-congratulation, whatever its source, is premature as the following figures will suggest...
...want to shoot their own fur coats, the Sarapiqui jungle is home to five different varieties of wild cat, ranging from the little margay (about the size of an overgrown Siamese) to El Tigre himself: the jaguar-third largest cat in the world (behind the true tiger and the African lion...