Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...control yourselves," soothed Youlou, "and we will emerge greater because of this trial." He proclaimed a day of mourning for the Congo's "national martyrs." At week's end both countries rejected an offer to replay the game on the neutral turf of the Central African Republic, and formally broke off "athletic relations...
...game in Brazzaville was an important elimination match in the bitterly contested Coupe des Tropiques. Congo won it, 3-1, but the Congolese spectators decided that the margin was too small and that the referee, supposedly a neutral from the Central African Republic, favored the Gabonese. So the crowd roughed up the visiting team...
...about a third of all childhood cancers. Though it affects cells of the lymphatic system, it rarely causes solid tumors and is regarded as a "cancer of the blood." What connection can this possibly have with a hideously deforming and quick-killing cancer of the jaw that afflicts African children? Researchers now think they know. The African disease offers the best chance to date of proving a relationship between a virus and a form of human cancer, and may help to explain why American leukemia cases sometimes appear in clusters-a phenomenon that has led to suspicions of an infectious...
...African and Asian delegates were extremely sensitive to attempts at using them for Communist propaganda purposes, Sigmund observed. The walk-out of the non-Communists from Ceylon, he remarked, was the first major public demonstration of dissatisfaction by non-Western delegates to any Festival...
...Salisbury show is the most comprehensive collection of African art ever assembled. It ranges from the terra-cotta pieces of the Nok culture. 2,000 years ago. through the supremely realistic Ife portrait heads of the 8th to the 14th century, to the Benin empire bronzes that mark the turning point from realism to expressionism between the 15th and the 19th centuries. The most recent pieces of traditional art in the show are wood carvings 50 years old. The older things have survived because they are made of terra cotta. bronze, iron or brass; millions of wood sculptures have been...