Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bloodiest military coup any black African nation has yet suffered. At least 40 civilians and 24 army officers were killed, and throughout the week bullet-stitched bodies kept turning up in such unlikely places as the 13th tee of a Lagos golf course. It was all the more shocking because Nigeria in its five years of independence has been held up as a showcase of stable African democracy. Unfortunately, the showcase was badly cracked long before the coup that shattered...
Shoes & Paychecks. Like most African nations that inherited their boundaries from their former colonialist masters, Nigeria is not really one country at all. It has 250 tribes speaking 250 languages. Its vast Northern Region, in which live more than half its 55 million people, is predominantly Moslem; its three southern regions are Christian or pagan. Because of its size, the north has been able to dominate national politics from the start, a fact that the more advanced south actively resents...
...army has been more merciful than might have been expected. The regions, coalitions, parties, tribes and all but four or five of the top leaders remain. We need only change the epithet, which was grossly inaccurate in the first place. How much better now to recite: "Nigeria, unwieldy African giant groping for a manageable form of government...
...Dahomey, Dec. 22; Central African Republic, Jan 1; Upper Volta...
...started in the first round of the South African P.G.A. tournament at Germiston, when both Sewgolum and South Africa's U.S. Open Champion Gary Player drew heavy galleries of whites and nonwhites. Police tried to chase off the nonwhites but got nowhere. So, as the second round opened the next day, the government hauled out its trusty racial iron and took a hefty swing. Police enforced tighter separation of the crowds, posted two agents with Sewgolum to keep the whites at a safe distance, and summarily banned Sewgolum from any further tournaments after the South African P.G.A., including...