Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some movie fans just won't settle for sitting through endless reruns of their idol's films or collecting faded photographs. San Francisco Restaurateur Frederick Reeve has always had a passion for Humphrey Bogart, and when he heard of plans to scrap Bogie's African Queen, the grand old tub in which he and Katharine Hepburn chugged down the Ulanga in their 1951 movie, well, something had to be done. So Reeve flew to Nairobi, bought the old girl for $750, now plans to refurbish her for $10,000 more and haul the craft around the country...
...letter details four different schemes for opening courses in African Studies to Harvard students...
Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates may be allowed to cross-register at M.I.T., B.U., and the Ed School next Fall for African Studies courses...
...cross-registration at M.I.T. should be routine, the HPC says, since it is already allowed for science courses. The courses the HPC wants to see listed in the Harvard Course Catalogue include, "The Rise of African Nationalism," "The Emergence of Modern Africa," "Mechanisms and Forms of Protest," and "Comparative African Politics...
...sharper relief by reference to other features of the slave trade to the Western Hemisphere that seldom appear in the black nationalist view of this horrofying historical event. To those who take the historiography of the slave trade seriously, it is commonplace that leading and entrepreneurial groups in Negro African societies were voluntarily privy to the slave trade. These groups saw the trade in slaves as an economic relationship, from which enormous wealth and political advantage could be derived. When such gain is available, I submit men will always seek it; they are not likely to let cultural or racial...