Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same time, Suwelo's wife, Fanny Nzingha, daughter of Olivia from The Color Purple, goes to Africa to learn about her own roots. She finds her father, a dissident playwright who somehow manages to keep his job as Minister of Culture of a fictional African republic while he is regularly thrown into jail for writing scathing plays...
...characters all speak in the same voice. Unlike Celie in The Color Purple, whose simple language and grammatical errors were emotionally powerful and expressive of a strong character, everyone in Temple uses a slick new-age vocabulary. Even the foreigners, the African and British, use the same language...
Written to "put pressure on" Mobil, the letteryielded no concrete response from the oil company,according to Morrell. Instead, the Mobil responseexplained that the company does not directly sellcrude oil to South African and cited South Africanand cited South African security laws whichprohibit disclosure of companies that do businesswith the apartheid regime's military...
That strategy is precisely the one whichpro-divestment activists from students and alumnito South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu andthe Rev. Allen Boesak have urged Harvard topursue...
Additionally, University officials say theyencourage some companies to stay in South Africaif they provide humanitarian services. Forinstance, although Harvard asked most of itscompanies with South African holdings to divest,Liebman says the University exempts drug companiesfrom this rule "on the grounds that they areneeded...