Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DISCOVERY '65 (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-noon). "The Vanishing Jungle," a study of African wildlife in the Nairobi National Park and the Masai Amboseli Game Reserve...
Discontent is understandable in Guinea. Potentially one of the richest of the French West African states, it is now going to seed as only a nationalized African state can. In the capital city of Conakry, the nationalized Printania store displays empty shelves, broken windows, and East European canned goods (gulyás, pickled pork, beans), as well as toy Chinese Communist trucks at $8 apiece and East German pliers for $4. Women queue up for soap powder, tin buckets and sandals cut from old bicycle tires...
...copper sulphate to kill the carrier snails has been ineffective. Some of the drugs now being used to treat the disease require painful injections. In 90% of cases, Ciba's Ambilhar pills cure the American and African forms within a week; tests on the Asian form are under way. Yet, as Ciba admits, even this potent drug cannot wipe out the disease because a cured patient who goes back into the rice fields may be reinfected within minutes...
...Africa, but the twain meet on one point of principle: even more than each hates the other, they hate anybody who tries to erase the color line that divides them. Such is the sardonic opinion of France's Georges Conchon, a former Secretary-General of the Central African Republic, and he expresses his opinion with sadistic delight in this ferociously witty satire on the men and movements of contemporary Africa...
...savage state of the accusatory title is a young African republic where a Negro Cabinet minister falls in love with a white woman. Both black and white communities rise up against the couple and take a terrible vengeance. The minister's black colleagues cynically arrange his assassination, and then literally eat his brains. His mistress is successively brutalized by a black mob and berated by the white colony. Her estranged husband, who tries to protect her, is beaten up by his white associates. And at book's end, two howling hordes of savages, one black and one white...