Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seminar series on Africa will open at 7:30 p.m. tonight in Sever 37 with a speech by Immanuel Wallerstein, African scholar at Columbia University, on the history and uses of the idea of neo-colonialism...
Afterwards, African and American members of the seminars will begin discussing the charge that the grant of independence to many African countries has been a deception, because they remain heavily dependent upon former colonial powers. The seminars are all aimed at an examination of neo-colonialism...
...president of Sanitary Farms Dairy, Erie, Pa., and his wife took a six-month African safari in 1950, with stops in Paris, London and Rome. The Tax Court permitted the firm to deduct $16,443 for costs of the trip on the ground that it constituted legitimate "advertising...
...whole place is run by the police. Armed soldiers and government spies are everywhere. Priests and nuns are imprisoned for trivial reasons." So charges Roman Catholic Father William Dowds, a South African-born missionary, of the country where Christian missions are currently faring worst: the Sudan. Since last November, 77 Catholic priests (including Dowds), brothers and nuns, as well as 28 Protestant missionaries, have been exiled from the Sudan. As of last week, only about 50 missionaries, many of them aged and ill, were left to care for the 500,000 Sudanese Christians, four-fifths of them Catholics...
Shopping Around Asia. Commonwealth members have been busy lining up new trading partners ever since Britain began to woo the Common Market. Japan is this year expected to replace Britain as Australia's best customer. New Zealand is shopping around Asia for new markets. The African Commonwealth nations appear more concerned about dealing with fellow Africans than with their white Commonwealth brothers. Though world exports have increased 46% in the past eight years, export trade among the Commonwealth nations has risen only 17%. Instead of hoping that Britain would return to the fold, most Commonwealth businessmen hoped that Britain...