Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Black headlines last week told South Africans of the troubles elsewhere. RACES IN U.S. ON COLLISION COURSE, announced the Natal Mercury, while the Johannesburg Star gave prominence tO THE TRIBAL WAR IN NIGERIA. In the bright and busy nation at Africa's southern tip, however, such difficulties seemed far away. Topless nighties were the talk of Cape Town. In Johannesburg, where last month's antique-car rally had drawn 69 entrants-from a 1907 Diatto-Clement to a 1938 Bugatti-the city was debating whether the miniskirt should be banned, and the ballet season began with performances...
Symbol of Oppression. Racial trouble is indeed becoming an everyday occurrence in the U.S. It is also a gnawing problem for Great Britain, now flooded with Negro and Indian immigrants. In the past decade, 28 new African nations have gone through the upheaval of change from white to black rule, and many are now beset by shattering tribal conflicts. But nowhere has the violence of one race against another reached the proportions of the apartheid of South Africa. It is not the bloody violence of hurled bricks and broken bones, but it is violence nonetheless-the moral violence of oppression...
...less a barrier to stable government is the economic impoverishment of most African nations. With economies still based on agriculture, they have been unable to meet the wild expectations of their peoples that independence would automatically bring prosperity...
There are men in Hendrik Verwoerd's government who lack the statesmanship of Houphouet-Boigny, Nyerere, or Kenyatta. But had these African leaders grown up in South Africa, their abilities would never have been known. They would have been bank clerks, messengers-or in jail...
Early in the muzzy Nigerian August, one military junta took power from another in yet another coup that by now has become more commonplace in Africa than the tsetse fly. Whatever it is in the African climate or mentality or its shaky institutions that makes so many governments so susceptible to disintegration may never be very clearly understood. Perhaps there are some clues to be found in a novel source-a novel, that is, by Chinua Achebe...