Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hope for a settlement of the Rhodesian crisis. He had had four days of "serious talks" with an almost endless parade of 126 leading Rhodesians, and, as he told Parliament, "no one, British or Rhodesian, has been able to hear the views of so many leaders of opinion, African or European, for very many years." Out of them had come an agreement for a joint Royal Commission that had, for the time being at least, headed off Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith's threats to issue an immediate unilateral declaration of independence. "I am satisfied," Wilson declared, "that...
...sunny, sybaritic Indonesian resort town of Bandung, some 29 African and Asian nationalists gathered ten years ago to declare their heartfelt disdain of European colonialism and to get to know one another. In the decade since then, the Afro-Asian world has expanded from 29 to 65 nations, each with its own, pressing internal problems. The grand dream of 1955 has fragmented into even more intense subdreams-expressed by smaller groupings such as the Arab League, the Organization of African Unity, the Organisation Commune Africaine et Mal-gache. Even within these groups, glittering chimeras give way to the hard practicality...
...been bitterly divided by ideology, with Leopoldville firmly pro-West and Brazzaville under Chinese Communist influence. They have been feuding ever since the Brazzaville crowd threw their weight behind the Congolese rebels trying to overthrow the Leopoldville government, and the feud grew even more intense when Moise Tshombe, whom African nationalists once despised, took over as Premier in Leopoldville...
...with the rebellion finally quelled and Tshombe forced out of office last month, President Joseph Kasavubu figured it was time to bring his neighborly relations back to normal. His first step came at the African "summit" meeting at Accra, where he neatly buried the hatchet with such neighbors as Tanzania and the Sudan, which had also supported the rebels. Last week, after hours of "pleasant" conversation in Leopoldville, Brazzaville's Ganao succumbed to the Kasavubu treatment as well. The two Congos agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations and restore the permanent ferry service that had once linked their...
Married. Mary Oppenheimer, 21, only daughter of South African Diamond King and Apartheid Critic Harry Oppenheimer, herself a devoted social worker among Africans; and Gordon Waddell, 28, Scots stockbroker; in a glittering ceremony in Johannesburg's St. Mary's Cathedral, outside of which jostling crowds of wildly cheering blacks and whites were kept at bay by police using walkie-talkies and Alsatian dogs, followed by a lavish reception attended by 1,000 members of the white elite...