Word: africas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deceased uncle. He meets them when he goes to dispose of his uncle's property. They bring him food and mow the lawn, and when he invites them in to talk, he finds that his dinner is being cooked by a mother goddess who has spent countless lifetimes in Africa and America, and mowing his lawn is her longtime companion...
...same time, Suwelo's wife, Fanny Nzingha, daughter of Olivia from The Color Purple, goes to Africa to learn about her own roots. She finds her father, a dissident playwright who somehow manages to keep his job as Minister of Culture of a fictional African republic while he is regularly thrown into jail for writing scathing plays...
...characters. An aged British aunt spits out attacks on the Victorian era on her deathbed. A poor little rich girl buys a yacht to rescue Carlotta and Zede from prison, and, after wandering through the jungle in pink boots, she makes a new identity as an art teacher in Africa. Her rich parents, she claims, have "personally assasinated six rivers and massacred twelve lakes." A vicious guerilla fighter with a heart mothers a child and dies of grief when the father takes the daughter away to the capital. The daughter is sent to the Sorbonne but rejects its imperialist values...
Mobil Oil, the largest U.S. firm still doing business in South Africa, had staunchly refused to join the more than 170 American companies, including Exxon and General Motors, that have closed their operations in that country because of its racial policies. But last week Mobil announced that it is also pulling out. The firm will sell its $400 million petroleum refining and marketing operations to General Mining Union Corp., a South African firm, for $155 million...
Mobil's decision was prompted by a change in U.S. tax law that was intended to drive American companies out of South Africa. Since last year U.S. companies can no longer deduct from their American tax bills the taxes they pay to the South African government. That change, which cost Mobil millions in 1988, finally broke its stubborn resolve to stay. Said Mobil Chairman Allen Murray: "This was a difficult decision because we continue to believe that our presence and our actions have contributed greatly to economic and social progress for nonwhites in South Africa...