Word: bissau
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clearest recollections of the class of '72 are of being one of the group of students who seized Massachusetts Hall--President Derek Bok's office--for more than a week. We demanded that Harvard divest its shares in Gulf Oil, which was then underwriting oppressive regimes in Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and Angola...
...recent morning in Lola Franklin's third-grade class, the kids are wearing paper crowns signifying their status as African kings and queens, and they are standing one after another to shout out a dizzying variety of facts. "Welcome to Guinea-Bissau! The official language is Portuguese...
...interest in African films throughout the United States, The African Film Festival, Inc. (AFF), in conjunction with the Film Society of Lincoln Center, has organized the African Film Festival Traveling Series. Seven films are presented during this tour of African cinema. The films hail from Zimbabwe, Burundi, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso, and Tanzania...
...Blue Eyes of Yonta' opens the Festival with a mild view of Guinea-Bissau twenty years after the freedom movement's successful revolt against the Portuguese colonial government. Director Flora Gomes focuses on Yonta, a beautiful store clerk, who attracts attention as she walks through her hometown. One young man, Ze, becomes so enamored by her presence that he copies poems which praise 'her blue eyes,'--she has brown eyes--and sends them...
Johnson said that in Guinea Bissau, new corn-husking machines allow women to abandon the job and spend more time with their families, nurturing their children. "And the men feel the women are warmer toward them," she said...