Word: africanizing
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...warehouse is someplace in Windhoek, capital of the southern African nation of Namibia. The exact location is a closely guarded secret for the treasure it conceals is so precious that it is informally known as "white gold." Inside, in room after room, stuffed onto metal shelves that reach from floor to ceiling, are tens of tons of gleaming ivory--the tusks of African elephants carefully collected by government agents over the past seven years and stockpiled here. The cache is valued at hundreds of millions of dollars...
Besides, the African nations aren't proposing to slaughter elephants wholesale. The tons of ivory accumulated over the years have come mostly from animals that died of natural causes, and from a few killed by game wardens when they posed a direct danger to people...
...says Marshall Jones, assistant director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and a leader of the U.S. delegation to the conference, is that "the ivory ban is one of the best, most effective measures CITES has ever undertaken." During the 1980s, when poachers killed an average of 200 African elephants a day for their tusks, the population plummeted to an estimated 625,000, down from 1.3 million in 1979. Since the ban went into effect, the population has fallen only slightly...
...sell. If the market were opened up, though, the situation could change overnight. Says Dave Currey, director of the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency: "Even a partial relaxation would send a message to poachers that ivory trade is back." Indeed, the message may already be out. David Barritt, African director of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, reports that elephant poachers recently arrested in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, said they had been told the ivory trade would "soon be legal...
Moreover, Robinson argues that the public intellectual has a particular and important role to play in the dissemination of African-American studies...