Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Crompton's interest in animals began in the African outdoors and started him on the road to veterinary school before an interest in comparative anatomy drew him away...
...ascension of the South African Nationalists in 1949 had brought in a system of state-backed racism that would soon make that country uniquely infamous and Crompton increasingly uncomfortable with his homeland...
...South Africa. Lockwood and the children--Kitty, Katya, Eliza and Louis--are there too, although the couple are separated and planning to divorce. Proceedings scheduled to begin last week have been postponed. In Cape Town Spencer has found himself the subject of some scandal. He had been seeing South African fashion designer Chantal Collopy, whose husband brought suit against the earl for ruining their marriage after his wife left him. More recently, Spencer has been linked to another South African, model and fashion editor Josie Borain...
Thank you for the positive piece about Uganda and its President, Yoweri Museveni [WORLD, Sept. 1]. Who says nothing good can come out of Africa? At least, all African leaders are not crooks, thieves, criminals, looters of their countries' treasuries and incompetent and ignorant dictators. Africans can be proud of leaders like Museveni. But alas, Africa is still in bondage. An era of peace and prosperity will emerge only when African leaders realize that salvation for their countries lies in the hands of Africans, not Europeans and Americans. African leaders should fashion a political system of government that is most...
DIED. MOBUTU SESE SEKO, 66, African strongman and kleptocrat whose 32-year rule of Zaire finally ended last May; of prostate cancer; in Rabat, Morocco. In the cold war theater that was Africa, Mobutu profitably played the anticommunist, earning an ally in the U.S. and seizing power in what was then the Belgian Congo in a 1965 coup. He ordered the nation to discard Western dress in the name of African authenticity and touted nationalization and other economic reforms. But he spent the following decades looting his resource-rich country, leaving it bankrupt and impoverished...