Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Edgar was faced with another classic clash of white man's rules with deep-rooted African beliefs. Since the two could not be resolved, Sir Edgar was forced to make his decision on the basis of social patterns he could understand. Ignoring the elders' testimony, he sentenced both men to be hanged...
...long ago as last December, it was obvious that the shaky Central African Federation was not long for this world. Obvious, that is, to everyone but the federation's Prime Minister, big, beefy Sir Roy Welensky. who stoutly insisted that "the continued presence of the white man in Africa" depended on the maintenance of the union of Northern and Southern Rhodesia...
...time Welensky checked into the Hyde Park Hotel, Nationalist Kenneth Kaunda, top African leader in Northern Rhodesia, had already attended his first meeting with Britain's Deputy Prime Minister R. A. Butler to decide the fu ture course of Central Africa. Of rambunctious Sir Roy, Kaunda sneered, "We are here to rob him of his job. You might make him Lord Broken Reed." With Rab Butler, Kaunda and his fellow nationalist, Harry Nkumbula, argued for two hours Northern Rhodesia's right to secede, and asked why their country should be considered "the Cinderella of Central Africa." When Butler...
...Central African Republic...
Something for Nothing. The one restraint on many nations in their get-rich-quick desire to seize foreign holdings is their acute need to attract more foreign investment. Many of the new African nations, who have all too little to expropriate as it is, have pledged to protect foreign capital; so have the oil sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf, which profit so hugely from the presence of foreign-owned oil companies. But in many other places, nationalization is growing along with nationalism...