Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Establishment with choleric wit, no-holds-barred political satire found a big, avid audience in theaters, nightclubs and newspaper columns. Even on BBC television, a longtime stronghold of genteel conformity, bright young men fresh from the universities outrageously lampoon such sacred cows as the Church of England, royalty, black African prime ministers and their own Harold Macmillan...
...Blow to Progress." Thus last week died the man who was ruler of a postage-stamp-sized republic (75 by 340 miles) on the sweltering West African coast. Chief architect of Togo's 1960 independence from French control, London-educated Olympio practiced stern austerity at home, rejected demagoguery, and sided openly with the West. President Kennedy, whom Olympio visited in Washington last March, mourned his death as "a blow to the progress of stable government in Africa...
...come across with the cash. As an exporter of peanuts and beef (its cattle are north of Africa's tsetse fly zone), self-sufficient in rice and other staples, Mali just might make the grade, despite the Marxist trappings. In any case, Modibo Keita, like many another African leader, is still open to suggestion on which ideology is best...
...Lion. Africa is for the Africans; Connecticut is for people who can afford it. That's the moral of this movie, and it doesn't make much sense. But then the movie wasn't meant to make sense; it was meant to make money. It has one major star (William Holden), one good actor (Trevor Howard), one competent director (Jack Cardiff, who did Sons and Lovers), infinitudes of the usual fauna and some spectacular shots of Mount Kenya. It also has a portly, natty, sophisticated Hollywood lion named Zamba, who looks as though he came from F.A.O...
...many capitals last week. For the third time in 15 months, the world was horrified witness to the spectacle of foreign soldiers, aided by the U.S.. seizing the towns and firing on native soldiers of the Congo. To many, the U.N.'s very presence in the African land was of doubtful wisdom. But in any case, the blazing guns and swooping planes of the U.N. hardly fitted the pacifying intent of its original Congo mandate...