Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even if high school was "a means to an end," as he says, it did make him into who he is today, renewing his interest in his African roots. It crystallized his interest in Afro-American history and culture, and externally at least, Americanized...
...African...
However, Ashong makes it very clear that despite his various travels, he is neither international nor American. Though his earliest memories are of Brooklyn, he is African. His baritone hardens when he says this, as if he's pounding his voice on the table in front of him. "I feel very much more at home in Ghana than in America," he says. "I don't feel like America fully accepts me, but I have somewhere I am better accepted, so why would I want to be an American...
...whole world has decided to throw away their own culture and use this as the culture that reflects them. Music by African-Americans has become their voice, their Esperanto, so to speak," Jones told Billboard. "I've traveled around this world so many times, and it still shocks me. And Americans, white and black, seem to be the last to know about...
FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE -- Taking advantage of a Red Cross-brokered cease fire, U.S. Marine helicopters flew another 1,200 foreign residents out of the beleaguered West African capital today, bringing the total number of evacuees to approximately 2,400 since Friday. The break in fighting allowed the rescue of many people from the beach front Mammy Yoko hotel, which had became the site of intense fighting since Nigerian troops made it their command post. Estimates of the number of military casualties range from a dozen to nearly 50 in Monday's fighting. So far, there are no reports of civilian...