Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sweeping are South Africa's penal codes that almost everything is against the law. Under the Prisons Act, for example, it is a criminal offense to "misrepresent" conditions in South African jails-which the Verwoerd government, of course, adjudges to be always immaculate. Last week, a court in Durban agreed. After a four-month trial, Magistrate M. E. Goodhead found Harold Strachan, 40, a bearded art teacher who has served three years as a political prisoner, guilty of building an "edifice of lies" about prison brutality. To improve its case against Strachan, the government called 56 witnesses, confiscated defense...
Harlem made him an honorary citizen for his early defense of African primitive sculpture. Modigliani drew his portrait and inscribed it to "The New Pilot" of modern art. He discovered Soutine and, the story has it, once sold a hundred of his paintings in a single batch to the U.S. collector Albert Barnes. But as one of Paris's most successful art dealers, the late Paul Guillaume had one flaw: he would not part with what he loved best. For this the Louvre Museum expressed its heartfelt thanks last week, as it installed 145 paintings from the collection...
...satisfy his sophisticated clientele, Harvey says he has run up against the tyrannical and ignorant distribution practices of the large companies. The Brattle Theater publishes a list of over a hundred desired films which cannot be shown, including most Garbo, Chaplin, and the Marx Brothers, and Bogart's African Queen...
...Abubakar himself was widely respected as a man who sought to bring the feuding regions together. He was also one of the continent's leading moderate statesmen, opposed equally to colonialism and to Kwame Nkrumah's brash brand of African nationalism. But many of the men in his government, especially the northerners, ran roughshod. The government was widely suspected of tampering with the 1963 census figures to ensure northern control in the federal parliament. In 1962, it jailed Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the anti-north Premier of the Western Region, and installed its own man, Chief Akintola...
...surprisingly, Nigerians fell in immediately behind their new regime. Businessmen and labor unions cheered, university students paraded through the streets of Lagos bearing a coffin and a banner proclaiming "Tyranny Has Died." All political parties-including the deposed Northern People's Congress-swore their allegiance. Editorialized the West African Pilot: "This great country has every reason to be proud of the military, which has taken over the fumbling feudal and neocolonialist regime. Today, independence is really...