Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Road" that connects it-sort of-with Tanzania. Winding for more than 1,000 miles through rain forests, game plains and mountain ranges, the road may well be the world's worst international highway. Its dizzy hairpin turns were scraped out and leveled (often with dragged thornbushes) by African tribesmen working off their tax debts. Along its flat stretches, the road is little more than a trail of treacherous sand or soap-slick mud. Black, blinding rains and eerie mists make it all but impassable from October to May, and the right-of-way is often usurped...
...prefaced his remarks with an anecdote about what it takes to be an authority on such a subject, relating that--at one point--the U.N. feared it was being too lax about the qualifications of its African experts. As a result, a directive was issued which established that "you can't be an expert on an African country any longer if you've only flown over it by night...
...instruments of this policy, O'Brien said, is the CIA. He explained that there have recently been four successful coups in African nations, and that in three of the four cases the first act of the new government was to expel the Chinese embassy. "In the remaining case--that of Upper Volta--there was no Chinese embassy to expel," he added. While unable to implicate the CIA with any certainty, O'Brien did say that "when a government expels the Chinese embassy it doesn't do so in an inscrutable and spontaneous demonstration of Sinophobia...
...worth more than all the first editions in Houghton. Since 1948 he has taken a few minutes at the end of each day to sift through the five or six dozen jackets accumulated for him by Widener's catalog department, where he works as a specialist in Dutch, African, and Frisian books. About ten per cent of these jackets escape immediate oblivion and go to his home for more critical scrutiny. Since Harvard College Librarian Keyes D. Metcalf decided in 1948 to preserve only the works of "outstanding and recognized artists" for the Harvard collection, Kleist must dig into reference...
Kilson went on to say that other African leaders would be glad to see Nkrumah ousted...