Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...precise change which was made in the membership clause has not yet been announced, but two sources reported yesterday that the clause had been simply eliminated. Another possibility is that the words "African and Afro-American" have been dropped from the clause, which originally read. "Membership in the Association shall be open to African and Afro-American students currently enrolled at Harvard and Radcliffe...
...African was arrested in June. "When I reached the police station," he says, "I was told to undress except for my trousers. One African policeman was called and handcuffed me with my hands behind my back and a sack over my head. On my small fingers electric wires were connected to a current. I cried and fell down. If it fell lose it would be inserted under my trousers. I was knocked with fists and sticks. I then promised to talk...
Abroad, the most immediate problem is a violent quarrel with Kenya's northeastern neighbor, Somalia, which lays claim to the barren but extensive Northeastern Region, inhabited by 200,000 Somalis (see map). To diminish such quarrels, Kenya is earnestly pushing an East African Federation of Kenya with Tanganyika and Uganda, which would create a nation of 25 million people and might eventually be extended to such small states as Zanzibar, Nyasaland, Rwanda and Burundi. Internationally, Kenya will, of course, be neutralist and accept aid from both East and West...
...home, Kenyatta must reckon with a population that is soaring at an annual rate of 3.4%, and though the government intends within five years to settle 50,000 African families on a million acres in the "White Highlands" bought from European settlers with $80 million supplied by Britain, by that time an additional 100,000 families will be clamoring for land. Kenya's huge labor surplus must idly await the slow development of industry, and there is a great lack of trained professionals to replace the departing whites. For example, Kenya has 750 doctors but needs at least...
...Outlook. Painstakingly, Kenyatta pleads with his people to accept Harambee, a Swahili word meaning "pull together." He tells Africans that they must concede full partnership to whites and Asians, and tells his own dominant Kikuyu tribe that they must work amiably with other tribes. The opposition KADU Party, which elected only 31 of the 130-member House of Representatives, is falling apart as more and more of its own Representatives climb on the Kenyatta bandwagon, lured by government jobs and patronage. As a result, Kenya will probably become a typically African one-party state, but probably not in so virulent...