Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communism is a real threat everywhere in Southeast Asia. I do not view Communism as a bogey. I say that if the Commies want to hold the hot potatoes of the developing countries, let them; if a thankless job has to be done, let your enemy do it. But African and other Asian nations send delegations here to see what makes Malaysia tick. If democracy has a show window in the East, this (with Singapore) is it. Do we want to throw these countries to the wolves? Confronted with a choice of evils, the wise man chooses the lesser; that...
Soyinka, 33, has no complexes of self-consciousness about being an African. While fond and proud of his Nigerian heritage, he has small use for such concepts as "negritude." "Does a tiger feel his tigritude?" he asks. A member of the cultured and sophisticated Yoruba tribe, he was educated at the University of Ibadan and the University of Leeds in England. He has worked for London's Royal Court Theater as playwright, actor and producer, and taught English literature at the University of Lagos...
Thus he is steeped in two cultures. His novel, The Interpreters, relies on stream-of-consciousness techniques and other Joycean devices; yet the symbolism and spirit of the book are unwaveringly African. His play, The Road, which won first prize in the first and only Dakar Festival of Negro Arts, is infused with patterns and dialogue reminiscent of Beckett and Pinter, but the message is uniquely African. A kind of African Waiting for Godot, it concerns a group of drivers, thugs, passengers and autoparts scavengers in a broken-down truck who are dominated by an ex-minister awaiting a revelation...
...independent off-spring of SNAP that functions as an employment agency, but wants to play politics. Black-power advocates control SEMCO. Charles Evans, a leader of the group, has changed his "slave name" to Chukuma Edozima. He is conducting a campaign to persuade Puerto Ricans that they are of African descent. Edozima obviously wants to unite all the South End's poor, as Mel King does. But he has outraged many people and has fanned the glowing embers of "Puerto Rican consciousness...
...fault, in all fairness, is not his. His settings are as novelistically vivid as ever. The action is brisk: scenes from the War of 1812 as a curtain rais er; no-quarter combat with pirates in Caribbean and African waters; amphibious derring-do during the Mexican War; for a climax, the Commodore's steaming into Edo Bay and dramatically opening Japan to the West...