Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whether to seat the Nationalists or the Reds in China's seat. Last year Peking got 57 votes, 17 short of the necessary two-thirds of the General Assembly. France's recognition of Peking will undoubtedly bring further support with it, perhaps including several of the French African states...
...Kaunda, 39, the austere, energetic minister's son who was in turn jailed by the British and later groomed by them to take over the copper-rich protectorate. Kaunda's United National Independence Party (U.N.I.P.) captured 55 of 75 seats in the legislative assembly, crushing the demoralized African National Congress Party of hard-drinking Harry Nkumbula, Kaunda's onetime mentor...
Most other observers agree. One of the most intelligent of all new African leaders, Teetotaler Kaunda, who was trained as a teacher, has staunchly forsworn violence in the ten-year struggle to dissolve the now-extinct Central African Federation, in which Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland were reluctant partners with white-dominated Southern Rhodesia. Zambia, as Northern Rhodesia will be called after independence, will be a multiracial society in which, promises Kaunda, "the rule of law shall prevail and no individual is going to be victimized because of his country of origin...
Kaunda's policy makes economic sense, since European and South African know-how is essential to the booming mining industry, which is expected to yield the government close to $70 million in taxes during its first year of self-rule. Since the country also has abundant land, ample water and few settlers, it has been largely spared the racial bitterness that has riven Kenya. However, in the wake of the uprising that came close to toppling his friend Julius Nyerere in neighboring Tanganyika, the usually affable Kaunda warned grimly last week: "We shall crush ruthlessly any attempt to overthrow...
...strongly anti-Communist overseas Frenchmen, who called it "une folie de grandeur." Even France's former colonies in Africa, which usually give Paris solid diplomatic backing, were split. Said Madagascar's President Philibert Tsiranana, echoing the opinion of about eight (out of 14) French-oriented African states: "For once, I will not follow General de Gaulle." Eying the enormous market for its goods on the Chinese mainland, Japan was torn between commerce and political loyalty. "Our policy, in accordance with the principle of separation of economic from political matters, is quite clear," said Premier Hayato Ikeda...