Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Afrikaner frightens me. As a Jewish South African, I realize that, were it not for his preoccupation with the Bantu, he would still be openly and violently antiSemitic. He frightens me because, ostrichlike, he refuses to see that apartheid can never work. He frightens me because he cannot stand criticism, and because in his mad efforts to eliminate opposition he creates the very conditions (ripe for revolution) that he seeks to destroy...
...most cases, the reasons for African instability lie less with the inability...
Murder in the Heart. On the surface, many Africans seem to be happy enough about apartheid. "We know what we have is ours, even if it is the gift of the white boss," says Ephraim Tchabalata, who has grown rich on a chain of dry-cleaning establishments and filling stations. The streets of the cities echo with the laughter of Africans, and the townships rock to the Beatle beat of guitars, strummed by young men wearing the cowboy hats that have become the latest rage. But all too often the smiles hide resentment. Says one African: "If I walk...
There has indeed been plenty of instability in the black African nations since they were granted independence. The Congo has been in perpetual chaos, the Sudan has been unable to cope with the rebellion of its anti-Moslem south against its Moslem north. Three East African nations have had to put down military uprisings, and the governments of eight countries have fallen before military coups. In addition, only a handful of Africa's new countries have maintained any semblance of the multiparty democracy that they inherited from their departing European colonists...
...involvement in local civil rights work. And in Evanston, Ill., the Rev. Emory G. Davis this month left his church, after being repeatedly urged by parishioners to stick to the work of the parish and leave civil rights to God. Ironically, Davis and the 400 parishioners of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church are Negroes...