Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TRIALS OF BROTHER JERO and THE STRONG BREED. Wole Soyinka, the foremost black African playwright, is being detained in a Nigerian jail, but his two one-acters have traveled well to Manhattan. Brother Jero, played with finesse by Harold Scott, is a delightful spoof of the self-declared prophets who hold ceremonies for their "customers" on the beach. The Strong Breed is more of a myth-play, delving into the realm of tribal taboos with the tale of a stranger who becomes a village's sacrificial scapegoat...
...cost of the five-month rebellion has been frightful: more than 1,000 killed on both sides, at least 27 of them white civilians; the halt of practically all economic activity in rich Kivu province; and heavy damage to Bukavu, the mercenaries' stronghold. Last week the Organization of African Unity demanded that the mercenaries' home countries pay reparations to the Congo as the price of their release...
...star of Africa." With the mercenaries gone-they signed a pledge never again to fight in Africa-and the country on a more sensible course at least temporarily, the Congo finally has a chance. It is richer in natural resources-copper, tin, cobalt, industrial diamonds-than almost any other African nation. With the opportunity to exploit them in peace, it could become a model of prosperity rather than of chaos...
...group's newly renovated offices on Arrow Street look like something out of Blow Up. The main studio with its vaulted 20-foot ceiling is painted white. It is both cluttered and spacious, with cut-out magazine pictures, photographs of African natives, and brightly-colored design sketches all over the walls. Hanging above the doorway is a huge blueprint of the battleship U.S.S. Massachusetts, which Freeman and his comrades are turning into a World War II Memorial...
There was a time when the only practical cooperation between East African countries went no further than a common mail and railway service. Zambia's eagerness to join the treaty could only be a prestigious vote for the newly revived unity efforts. Coming so close on the heels of the Conference it could not help but be associated with the movement sparked by the Kinshasa meeting...