Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last play concerned three African officials who visit the United States and eventually eat their gorgeous Peace Corps girl guide. "It did not work," Kopit said, because although the Africans were not supposed to be the villains, many people interpreted them as such...
...Honorable Members in collusion have torn up the constitution under which this House meets," he roared. "The proceedings have no legal validity whatsoever." That was as far as he got. While his 50 fellow whites hooted and jeered ("The law is an ass!"), Palley was suspended from Parliament. Nine African deputies walked out with...
Place of Slaughter. There were other demonstrations last week that hardly befitted a newly independent nation. At the industrial capital of Bulawayo (which means "Place of Slaughter" in the Sindebele language), a policeman shot and killed an African member of a mob stoning a bus. Soon the entire African community, usually docile, was up in arms. Half the city's labor force walked out in protest. Factories, shops and restaurants closed. Street sweepers laid down their brooms. At Bulawayo's fashionable Hotel Victoria, guests were forced to make their own beds. Tear gas and threats to fire...
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...this article, I admit that I am emotionally involved in this particular area because I am a Rhodesian by birth. The best hope I can see for the future is that my generation may turn out to be more enlightened than that of my elders. They saw the African in his primitive state when they first settled in Rhodesia and cannot quite conceive of him now as ruling the country. An example of this was my sister's bringing an African girl friend from school home for the weekend, to the utter astonishment of my parents.This farm is located...