Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refreshing to read that African leaders are finally beginning to ask Christian missionaries to go home...
...African slave labor once scraped fortunes for British planters from the soil of these lush islands, but today they are rich only in scenery, have precarious, one-crop economies, which have been hurt by increased competition abroad. The St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla group (pop.: 60,000) suffers from uncertain prices for its sugar. The fortunes of St. Lucia (100,000), Grenada (88,000) and Dominica (67,000) slide or surge along with the world price for their bananas. Only Antigua (65,000), with its casino and 33 hotels, attracts a sizable tourist crowd; it needs visitors more than usual this...
...schoolteacher and ex-newspaperman demonstrates with a special horror how white civilization can fail in the face of the white man's degeneracy and corruption. The bush, the prickly pear and the thorn trees are creeping back over the paddocks of Sherwood Ranch, a once-prosperous farm in African "territory" on the edge of the Kalahari Desert. It is presumably in Bechuanaland, being also north of Kipling's "great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River," and whatever its political future, a colonist would probably do better on the moon...
...stinginess or financial slumps of countries like France, Germany, or Russia. Though the United States wants to channel aid through international institutions, neither the President nor Congress will tolerate the World Bank's rule that it will not administer funds that are tagged for specific countries. And the African Development Bank is presently too inexperienced and understaffed to carry out major investment programs...
Self-help is the third Johnson proposal to make foreign aid more efficient. This cry--"help instead of money"--has been heard before. Drawing directly from Ambassador to Ethiopia Korry's report on African development, Johnson said that America should provide technical assistance rather than money in fields like agricultural techniques, health services and population control...