Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the delegates from 71 nations, the Latin Americans were angry at Europe's Common Market nations for clamping high tariffs on South American coffee and almost none on coffee from France's former African colonies. The Latin Americans wanted rigid export quotas. The Africans, whose beans are used mostly for instant coffee and whose coffee trade is booming on the trend to instant, wanted elastic quotas that would expand or contract with world demand. And all the producing countries wanted the Europeans to lower their high taxes on coffee (example: $1.50 a lb. in West Germany...
...hams with which Balloon is ballasted: Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Peter Lorre, Red Buttons, Herbert Marshall, Billy Gilbert, Chester the Chimp-the ape apes them all and in the process manages slyly to suggest that they are all making monkeys of themselves. Gravely he lists the cinema cliches associated with African adventure: senile rented lions, brffsking British bwanas, bulbous Viennese sheiks, disdressed American beauties, big dumb tribesmen who look suspiciously like studio Indians retouched for the occasion. Most of all he relishes the silly things people say so earnestly in this sort of movie, and assembles a connoisseur's catalogue...
Bruce was only a traveler; Napoleon was very much more. With Napoleon, Moorehead uses what might be merely historical pageant to dramatize the impact of European technology on African barbarity. It was as a young (29) revolutionary general that Bonaparte went to Egypt. Although the outcome is known, Moorehead's superb narrative of the French adventure has the quality of suspense. Napoleon brought a small force by modern standards of mass war (36,000, including sailors), but his riflemen alone doomed the ruling cavalry aristocracy of Cairo to utter defeat. Also, he carried the future in his own baggage...
...imperialist monarchs and some violent falsehoods about Ghana will compensate for the egoistic propensities of this Lucifer of a priest.'' Kwame Nkrumah likes to think of himself as the future boss of Africa. Time after time, he has tried to rally the other nations around his Pan African banner...
...stations and railway terminals. But towering (6 ft. 2 in., 245 Ibs.), affable Nelson Mandela sped from one hideout to another. Often he telephoned newspapers with defiant statements against the government; once he even gave a television interview to the BBC. Last February he traveled to a Pan-African congress in Addis Ababa and returned unnoticed...