Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WHITE SEASON. A white liberal turns radical after confronting the brutality of South African racism. Hard-edged drama that couples the pulse of popular fiction with the jolt of moral outrage...
...Dinkins succeeds, New York would join the growing ranks of cities with black mayors. African Americans occupy just 1.5% of elective offices at the federal, state and local level, though they account for 11% of the voting-age population. But 22 years after the ground-breaking 1967 elections of Carl Stokes in Cleveland and Richard Hatcher in Gary, more than 300 American cities have black mayors, including 25 with populations over...
Here it is, then, our annual antiapartheid movie. In moral thrust, A Dry White Season is exactly like its immediate predecessors, Cry Freedom and A World Apart. Once again a white liberal comes to radical consciousness after intimate confrontations with the murderous brutality of South African racism and suffers dreadfully as a result...
Nujoma, who has waged a protracted armed struggle against South African rule, returned to Namibia in time to register as a voter in the November elections for a constituent assembly, which will prepare the territory for final independence next year. But SWAPO's election director, Hage Geingob, is among those who fear that Namibia's history of political bloodshed may not yet be over. If any harm came to Nujoma, he said, "the consequences would be too ghastly to contemplate...
PARIS--A DC-10 airliner bound from the Congo to Paris with 170 people aboard disappeared on Tuesday, probably over the West African country of Niger, the French airline UTA said...