Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tabata, President of the African Peoples' Democratic Union of Southern Africa, will speak on "The Liberation Struggle in South Africa" at 3 p.m. tonight in Lowell Lecture Hall...
Straw of Hope. Fearful above all of black rule, Smith has offered little more than window dressing in return. He seems willing to add to Rhodesia's legislature a senate of twelve African chiefs, but its powers would be dubious and most chiefs are government puppets, anyway. He suggests he might grant voting rights to 1,000,000 more Africans, but will not increase the number of House seats (15 out of 65) for which they can vote. He would even sign a treaty guaranteeing the sanctity of the present constitution that in theory will give Africans control...
Premiers do not thrive in Burundi, a small, landlocked central African nation of 2,750,000. In the three years since it gained independence from Belgium, two heads of government have died at the hands of assassins. Last week a third went down in a volley of bullets...
Though Maryland-sized Burundi was an important Red Chinese base for African subversion until Mwambutsa booted Peking's diplomats out last January (TIME, Jan. 29), international conspiracy apparently had nothing to do with last week's revolt. Instead, it was caused by the same thing that killed the other Premiers-the tribal rivalry between the towering Watutsis and the shorter but far more numerous Bahutus, who for centuries have served the Watutsis as virtual slaves. Fed up, the Bahutus now demand a republic-like the one their fellow tribesmen achieved in neighboring Rwanda after overthrowing a Watutsi king...
...Kwame Nkrumah, the big day had finally arrived. After two years of cross-continental lobbying, one year of round-the-clock building, and an embarrassing two-month delay (to finish the building), the Father of Pan-Africanism was ready at last to receive the homage of Africa's other leaders. The third annual conference of the Organization of African Unity had begun...