Word: africas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Africa is a continent crucified by famine and war, pestilence and poverty. For Christianity, however, it is a continent of resurrection. Even as older churches in Europe and the U.S. are emptying, faith is thriving in the sprawling lands south of the Sahara. As is so often the case, spiritual strength is inspiring -- and being inspired by -- an outpouring of artistic creation. "We are on the verge of a golden age in African Christian art," proclaims Jesuit Father Engelbert Mveng of Cameroon. "The movement cannot be stopped, and it is bursting out in flower all over Africa...
Before the missionary era, the only Christianized black nation was Ethiopia, whose austere art style remained largely unchanged since the Middle Ages. When the first missionaries arrived in other parts of Africa in the 15th century, they sought to stamp out tribal religions and with them idols, ceremonial masks and ancestral images. The artistic tug-of-war intensified during the 19th century as the number of Christian missions mushroomed...
...issue of race on this campus and others nationwide. Another goal was to educate students on apartheid in South Africa," said Quint, who is a senior. "[We wanted] to give them, in a small sense, what it feels like to be in the majority, but yet to be discriminated against," she said...
Quint said the experiment was also designed to help form a consensus of student opinion about the college's investments in companies that do business with South Africa...
According to Quint, the Simmons College Corporation has about $2 million invested in South Africa...