Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taught last year at Kurasini International College, a secondary school in Dar es Salaam run by the African-American Institute primarily for refugees from southern Africa. Most of the students came from Mozambique, Southwest Africa or Rhodesia. When we arrived, the "school" consisted of a house whose rooms had been converted to classrooms. The rooms were crowded and uncomfortable in the heat...
...basement of the Phillips Brooks House has been carrying on a unique and exciting project in international education called Volunteer Teachers for Africa. Each year, V.T.A. (formerly known as Project Tanganyika) sends a dozen or more Harvard and Radcliffe students to teach for twelve months in East African schools, community centers, and refugee camps. And each year former project members return to Harvard to proselytize for the next group to follow...
...heaven's name was the Elect of God doing in the Caribbean, 7,500 miles from his own kingdom? Family ties, of a sort. The people of the three countries, most of whose ancestors came from Africa, share a sense of brotherhood and a deep feeling for African rulers, especially for an African king such as Selassie. They also share a similar history of colonialism, mixed populations and economic problems. Since they gained their independence in 1962, both Trinidad-Tobago and Jamaica have seen their economies slow down and unemployment rise. As for Haiti, its economy has always been...
...late Polish-born cosmetics czarina, Helena Rubinstein, was a passionate pack rat. As some women accumulate lipsticks, she collected silverware, Oriental rugs, miniature period furniture, African art and dolls. She also owned works by the greatest French painters of her day. When she died last year at the age of 94, she left four homes-in Manhattan, Greenwich, Conn., London and Paris-each packed with masterpieces and exquisite junk...
...duties as assistant dean and tutor in Leverett, Epps is a man of surprisingly diversified extra-curricular interests, many of which involve a large number of Negro students. Advisor to the Association of Afro and Afro-American Students, Epps feels that it provides a forum for discussion between African and American Negroes where they can examine the "useful aspects of negritude." Primarily, he says, it helps form a Negro identity, "but I do not think that the forum should exclude whites who are interested in the same issues...