Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Trevor Howard trying to save the African elephant in The Roots of Heaven, with Errol Flynn, Orson Welles and Eddie Albert...
Nigeria has survived to become Africa's most conspicuously successful democracy. Its birth pangs were eased by a long tradition of tribal government, and by the solid good sense of many African leaders whom the British groomed for self-rule-notably its federal Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (TIME cover, Dec. 5, 1960). The greatest single assurance of stability has been Nigeria's tripod form of government, designed to prevent any one region from dominating the other two. That system is now in jeopardy, and with it the very future of Nigeria as a democracy...
...longer holds diamonds off the market to buttress prices, which his father, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, did during the Depression. But Harry Oppenheimer, a thoughtful and gregarious veteran of Oxford and Britain's World War II Desert Rats, does indeed set prices for the industry. Reason: almost all other African producers see the advantage of selling to the De Beers powerhouse rather than engaging in cutthroat competition. Even the Soviets recently chose Oppenheimer to market their Siberian gems. As for those who dig his diamonds out, Oppenheimer pays his unskilled African laborers better than most, but it still does...
Like other Africans in Eastern Europe, the 350 African students in Bulgaria found more segregation than brotherhood, more indoctrination than education. After the riot, Ghana's ambassador lodged a strong protest with the Bulgarian government, and just about all of the Africans in Sofia decided to pack up and seek education elsewhere. "We have been insulted in every possible way," said Ghanaian Agricultural Student Robert Kotey as he arrived in Vienna. "We were molested in the streets, called 'black monkeys' and 'jungle people,' and people used to spit out before us on buses and trains...
...those spontaneous expressions of people-to-people friendship that can take even a more practiced U.S. diplomat by surprise. After inspecting the new USIS library in downtown Algiers, G. Mennen Williams, 52, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, was on his way out when up dashed an enthusiastic gentleman. Soapy got the hand, but the beard got him-in a bristly, both-cheeks embrace. The Algerians were all for Williams because he observed the sunrise-to-sundown Moslem fast of Ramadan-plus the fact that their government had decided to headline the U.S. emergency aid (40,000 tons...