Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Governor Foster Furcolo appointed Benjamin A. Smith II, 46, a Harvard roommate of the President's and a former mayor of Gloucester, to fill the seat until the 1962 election. Last week the President named Smith to be his representative at the October independence celebration of the young African nation of Uganda...
...private, Lodge minces no words about Teddy. "I consider it a base impropriety that Teddy is so blatantly using his relationship with his brother for selfish purposes. What has he done to understand the world or Massachusetts? I first met Teddy in Nigeria during a meeting of the African region of the I.L.O. Teddy was there for a day and a half. He talks like that made him an expert on Nigeria. Well, I know what he learned there because I briefed him. He does not know Nigeria. He pretends he does. It's a phony...
...African art, admired in the U.S. and Europe as a rich creative tradition, has always had to fight for recognition in its own backyard. To the natives who practiced it, it was less art for art's sake than a deadly serious business of magic, medicine, fetish and religion. To most white colonizers. African art has always been a mumbo-jumbo sort of thing, "proof" that the native African lacked cultural instincts...
Last month an exhibition of African art opened at the Rhodes National Gallery in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, that gives a new perspective to the neglected cultural contribution of Africa to the rest of the world. More than 350 works-many borrowed from museums and private collections in Britain. Europe and the U.S.-make up the show (see color). Bronzes, wood carvings, ironwork, masks, dance costumes, ritual dolls, totems, musical instruments, fragments of terra cotta are there and compared, when appropriate, with photographs of examples from the modern movement in Western...
Cradle of Expressionism. Says Rhodes Gallery Director Frank McEwen: "The great attribute of African traditional art is expressionism-and the Africans had it centuries ago." As everyone knows. Picasso. Braque, Brancusi. etc., admired and copied African art. "The entire modern movement in Western art owes a debt to primitive Africa, and that is the point we are trying to make with this exhibition." McEwen says. "It is a fact that very few artists of contemporary style do not possess some well digested but evident influences of Africa...