Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third largest producer of coffee, fourth largest of cocoa and fifth largest of pineapple. At the same time, the rate of new local and foreign business investment (Renault, Esso, Unilever) has more than doubled to $100 million yearly. Last week businessmen and government officials from a dozen African countries rounded off a ten-day technical exposition sponsored by France, which picked the sophisticated capital of Abidjan for its first such show in Black Africa...
Champagne for Opponents. Unlike his counterparts in other African countries who tend to denounce all forms of foreign influence, Houphouët has accomplished the Ivory Coast's transformation by openly luring overseas capital and know-how to fill the vacuum left by the French departure. Today, foreigners-mostly French-occupy key technical posts in many government ministries and a full 90% of the top-and middle-level administrative jobs in private business. Thousands of skilled and unskilled workers from other African lands have flocked into the country as well, until foreigners now account for more than half...
...politics. A bush doctor for 15 years and later the founding father of the country's 25-year-old Democratic Party, he has a keen understanding of his people. He shuns flowery forensics and reads his speeches in a soft, professorial voice. Like any other wily African tribal chief, he also does nothing to discourage stories of his black-magic prowess, or rumors that he consults the sacred crocodiles in his palace pond...
Training & Loans. Houphouët's biggest problems are 1) a need for bright, well-trained African businessmen and civil servants, and 2) the envy of his neighbors. To solve the first, he is channeling 25% of the country's $263 million budget into education (v. only 10% for the army) and setting up 50 technical institutes and training schools. As for such neighbors as Togo, Dahomey, Niger and Upper Volta, he says: "I'm not interested in making the Ivory Coast an oasis of prosperity in the middle of a desert of misery. Sooner or later...
...everything else-South Africa has now promised to field a fully integrated team of black, white and Colored athletes who would live, eat, march and compete together. But South Africa's Olympics trials will still be segregated, and its neighbors are unsatisfied. Complaining that black South African Olympians would be merely "trained monkeys who would be shown at the fair," the 32-nation African Supreme Council for Sports met in Brazzaville and voted unanimously to skip the games...