Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...militant foes of Rhodesia had hoped to make last week's meeting of the Organization of African Unity a rallying point for tough action against Premier Ian Smith's rebel regime. It did not work out that way. No sooner had the delegates from 36 nations gathered in Addis Ababa's Africa Hall than they fell to squabbling about Ghana's deposed Kwame Nkrumah, an advocate of direct African military action against the Rhodesians. Guinea, Mali, Tanzania and Egypt all stomped out of the conference when it was decided to seat a Ghanaian delegation representing...
...these delegations could be classed as African "radicals," but the walkouts removed enough of them to give the moderates their day. When the Rhodesia question at last came before the conference, the resolution that succeeded was not Algeria's-which called for a guerrilla war against Rhodesia-but a more orthodox measure calling on Great Britain to use force if necessary to suppress the Rhodesian rebellion...
...more reasons for joy: heavily laden tanker trucks have been roaring north along the highway from South Africa, bringing in some 40,000 gallons of gasoline daily, nearly one-third of Rhodesia's rationed needs. The petroleum is being sold to Rhodesia by independent South African oil companies, which have been emboldened by Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's decision not to abide by Britain's oil embargo. The trucks were seized by Smith from British Petroleum and Shell subsidiaries in Rhodesia, repainted grey and blue or yellow and black. With white Rhodesians at the wheels, the trucks...
Before they were deposed by soldiers, most of the other African politicians had long ago frittered away their mandates in a binge of nepotism, incompetence, tribalism, petty tyranny or greedy corruption-while their countries rotted in anarchy and squalor. Items...
...Central African Republic, beset by everything from Chinese subversion to ministerial embezzlement to a staggering civil service payroll of 50,000 (for a population of 1.4 million), President David Dacko was overthrown by Colonel Jean-Bedel Bokassa, his cousin, who announced that he had acted "to head off two other coups, one against me and one against President Dacko...