Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wealthy Soapy Williams, who resigned his post as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs to make the race, already has the support of the state's powerful labor leaders and the Democratic machine. Yet no one is discounting the popular, dynamic Jerry Cavanagh-least of all Cavanagh, who has taken his own polls, believes that Williams' organization support may not help him win younger voters...
Surely it would have been possible to direct the contributions toward a more limited topic. Perhaps the magazine could have concentrated on a discussion of Rhodesia and South Africa, the plans and prospects for African unity, or the pattern of military coups revealed recently in Nigeria and Ghana. Instead the reader is confronted with all of these problems, plus an attempt to describe a comprehensive United States policy toward the entire African continent...
...Frank White '66 and Nwachukwo Azikiwe '68 accepted the task of defining this policy. White admits the inherent difficulties of definition, since "the United States actually had no policy in this area until the late 50's and early 60's." Quoting G. Mennen Williams, Undersecretary of State for African Affairs, White tries to make sense out of America's current policy goals. Most significant of William's points are that the U.S. advocates African self-determination, the solution of African problems primarily through the Organization for African Unity, and a program of aid and trade involving only one-tenth...
...outline the plans of the new government. A "miscellaneous" article by Stephen Cobb calls for a re-definition of the role of the American government in issuing passports, a controversy arising from the travels of Staughton Lynd. The three book reviews are intriguing, but not directly related to the African theme of the Review...
...editors to make their magazine a challenging forum for student opinion. An issue devoted to a more specific problem within the area of African affairs would have, I think, been more effective. And most of the writing could have been better edited with an eye to paragraph structure and syntax. But the Dunster Political Review remains an interesting and informative magazine...