Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...India out of the mainstream of the cold war as much as possible. In this way India will have a much better chance to build a stable, economically sound democratic system; and she will also be considerably more effective as a moderating influence on other, less responsible Asian and African countries...
Amid rumors that Britain plans to postpone Uhuru (Freedom) beyond the 1963 deadline demanded by Kenya's restive African leaders, London jolted the colony by abruptly announcing that Sir Patrick Renison, its Governor since 1959, has resigned. In fact, he had been fired, for, as he explained stiffly, "this change was not of my choosing." Commonwealth and Colonial Secretary Duncan Sandys suggested that for "the final stages of Kenya's advance to independence." Renison simply does not have enough "political experience...
...upright but unimaginative Governor, Renison has made little effort to win the confidence of African leaders. Socially he kept aloof in his gleaming white Nairobi residence amid its sprawling gardens, inviting the European elite in for an occasional cocktail party (with Lady Renison keeping a close personal eye on the liquor bills). He is particularly disliked by Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, who will probably be independent Kenya's first ruler. In 1960, opposing Jomo's release from detention as a ringleader of the 1952"59 Mau Mau terror, Renison warned that Kenyatta would lead the country to "darkness...
...Nairobi's Blimps, Kenya's new Governor, its 13th, has a feeling for history and an unaffected sense of equality with Britain's former subjects that has earned him the friendship of native leaders from Bangalore to Brunei. To hold Kenya together, as the East African Standard warned last week, he will also need "the wisdom of Solomon, the patience of Job and uncommon good luck...
Thomas Olson, administrative assistant to NSA's International Commission, said yesterday that the Harvard group will evaluate the strength and significance of European influence in African countries after they have achieved independence...