Word: amandla
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...announced, "The A.N.C. has been unbanned." The gathering seemed stunned at the news that the African National Congress, the leading force in the fight against apartheid, outlawed and in exile since 1960, would once again be a legal participant in the nation's politics. Then someone shouted, "Amandla!" (power), the battle cry of the movement, and the crowd thundered back, "Awethu!" (is ours), and broke into a chant, "A.N.C. ! A.N.C...