Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next on Karume's agenda was land reform, a basic concern of any African revolutionary leader. Last week, Karume announced that the huge, Arab-owned clove and coconut plantations on the main island would be "reallocated." Also nationalized were the shops and houses of Stone Town, from the tops of their Moorish-styled roofs to their brass-studded mahogany doors. All of this could only please the black majority on whom Karume bases his popularity. Equally pleasing was his crackdown on those bastions of squash and snobbery, the clubs. Visiting British Commonwealth Relations Secretary Duncan Sandys was sipping...
...East African Airways flight 304 approached Zanzibar one day last week, a message flashed ahead: "It is I, the field marshal, who comes. Have my army and the press waiting." Zanzi-baris could not fail to recognize the unique style of John Okello, the messianic Ugandan house-painter-turned-revolutionary whose bloody anti-Arab coup put Zanzibar's black Afro-Shirazi Party in power two months ago. But all that awaited Field Marshal Okello was rejection...
...Sterile agitation," sniffed Charles de Gaulle when tiny Gabon's 400-man army rose against its President last month. The coup, De Gaulle decided, had no popular support, so into the mineral-rich West African republic roared hundreds of tough French paratroopers. Overnight, De Gaulle's old, autocratic friend Leon Mba was back in power. It looked so simple, but. by last week Charles de Gaulle had learned something even simpler: nothing cures an African nation of political sterility like high-handed intervention...
Died. General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck/93, Germany's East African commander in World War I, a will-o'-the-wisp tactician whose tiny guerrilla force (300 Germans, 11,000 natives) haunted, taunted, eluded and periodically decimated a combined Anglo-Belgian-Portuguese force of 300,000 for four years, all the while scrupulously obeying Junkerdom's rules of war (he freed prisoners who promised not to fight again, refused to fire on enemy officers at close range), finally laid down his arms 14 leisurely days after the 1918 armistice, the only undefeated German general in that...
...belief that the philosophy of "Negritude" provides a certain kind of orientation to this problem that is far more healthy and humanistically progressive than the approach of those I call "myth-makers." "Negritude" is not, of course, a scientific category; it provides no guideposts for scientific inquiry into why African cultures solved as they did. It seeks merely to assist the Negro living in contact with modern society to overcome the destructive or debilitating effects of a cultural inferiority complex. Thus, Aimee Cesaire, the French West Indian who coined the term "Negritude," could write the following lines in 1929, without...