Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the subject is the Association of African and Afro-American Students, I am a critical audience. The idea of a Negro club that excludes whites is no more appealing to me than the idea of a final club that excludes Negroes and all but the least Jewish Jews. Replacing one racial exclusiveness with another, even in the name of a "necessary negritude," appears to me to be one of the saddest side-effects of the civil rights movement. Black nationalism, which may fit Africa but cannot fit the United States, is what the Afro-American Association has symbolized...
...ORDER AND THE NEW, by Wilfred Fowler. A novel about the end of British rule in an African state, written in a very different idiom from most modern fiction-terse, laconic, sinewed prose...
...former enemies and supported the U.N. war against Moise Tshombe's Katanga province. Since then the U.S. has switched, is supporting Tshombe as the man who can conceivably avert chaos in the Congo and who so far has been successful in suppressing the Red-backed rebels. While nationalist African opinion still fulminates against this U.S. policy, a great many African leaders have quietly begun to accept...
...Harvard Journal of Negro Affairs, published by the Association of African and Afro-American Students, will go on sale in House dining halls today...
...find himself completely caught up in it. What is absorbing is the shrewd and unobtrusive way Wood makes his assessment of a variety of men. As his reminiscence turns to the years of British withdrawal from the colony, he earns the reader's deepening respect by judging the Africans who are coming to power by the same standards. If there is a moral to the book, it is the mild one that the African politicians who shout for reform and whoop up riots are essentially the same sort of men as the British consuls they are replacing. Novelist Fowler...