Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stifled by the indoctrination and the joylessness of Red Chinese life. "The Chinese have no sense of humor," says Adams. "When you go to the movies there, you don't go to be entertained; you go to study." Starved for recreation, he began visiting Peking's African embassies "to hear music, to dance and to talk freely." The Chinese did not like it, urged him to break off contact with the Africans. When he asked to leave China, they quickly agreed...
President Banda found himself in control of that rarest of African commodities-a politically stable nation. And Banda is the man who keeps it that way. A natty, gnomelike former physician, Banda led his tiny (46,000 sq. mi.) country's fight for independence from the Central African Federation, became Prime Minister in 1964, and has since ruled the impoverished, landlocked nation with autocratic firmness. He jails critics at will, assumes sweeping powers to restrict the movements and statements of anyone in the country. Just to avoid confusion, Banda has even decreed that no Malawi businesses can have...
Banda is just as emphatically his own man on Africa-wide matters. Last week Diallo Telli, Guinea's leftist secretary-general of the Organization of African Unity, was in Malawi for Banda's inauguration when he suddenly found some of his pet schemes under scathing attack during a Banda press conference. "I didn't fight the British to exchange British imperialism for Eastern imperialism," Banda snapped. Then looking Telli straight in the eye, Banda shouted: "I mean that! I'm saying that because you are here. You can expel Malawi from the O.A.U." As Telli shrank...
Three members of the International Seminar spoke Wednesday night on "African Themes' in the first of six forums to be conducted weekly in Emerson...
There was some grumbling among the delegates from Africa. Asia and Latin America about the relevance of the whole discussion of social problems accompanying advanced technology. "That is like talking to me about the problems of over-eating when I haven't got any food," one African objected. The impact of technology may be dehumanizing, but I don't think that's anything as bed as poverty...