Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...luxurious rented apartment on La Croisette after a lucky evening at the roulette tables. As the elevator doors let him out on the fourth floor, two sportily dressed young men-one described as a tall, blond European, the other as a slighter, darker man who could have been North African-pounced from the corridor. After a scuffle and a shot, the Palestinian was left dying with a .32-cal. bullet in his head...
...stressed black consciousness and pride. He intoned: "I am somebody; I may be poor, but I am black, beautiful and proud." Then he called on his often tearful audiences to take up the chant. Referring to the 1976 racial riots, which were put down with murderous violence by South African police, he declared that "when dogs bit you here in Soweto, we bled in America." He characterized U.S. blacks as "African Americans" and said, "We bled in America when 1,000 of our brothers and sisters were killed here...
...African leaders who converged on the steaming tropical capital of Monrovia, Liberia, for the 16th annual summit of the Organization for African Unity boasted, as usual, about the continent's "maturity." After four days of stormy confrontations, however, they could hardly brag about harmony...
...Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty provoked an open breach between the Arab states and the moderate black African countries. As President Anwar Sadat delivered an impassioned defense of the treaty as a "long, long path toward peace we have only started," six radical delegations led by Libya and Algeria ostentatiously stormed out of the waterfront conference hall. Once again, the moderates outmaneuvered the radicals: the conference attacked Israel and reaffirmed support for the Palestinians, but did not explicitly condemn Egypt...
Jane Goldberg has been running a one-woman campaign for the past five years to revive Collins' art. She thinks it is important to preserve this distictly American art which, she says, blends Irish clog dance with African folk dance, because most of the original artists are in their sixties and will not be able to teach their craft indefinitely...