Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In Colonial Office jargon, this is known as "Creative Abdication": by showering concessions on the Africans instead of passing them out piecemeal, as in Malaya, the British hope to gain a friendly new Dominion. Nkrumah's attitude is: "Get out quick-but thanks for the memory."
This incongruous overlap of civilization and savagery, magic and machinery, makes many Britons doubt whether the Gold Coast is ready to rule itself. When African political parties march past the European Club in Accra, members raise their voices and go on discussing polo and trade as if the apparition outside...
"The Fifth Pan-African Congress," Nkrumah told a group of hot-eyed students in 1945, "calls on the workers and farmers ... to organize . . . the masses. Colonial and Subject Peoples of the World, Unite!" He was 36 and broke, a lonely colored man living in shabby lodgings in London's...
The British moved fast to repair the damage. A Parliamentary Commission hustled out to Accra, chastised the colonial administration for denying Negroes a voice in the government. The upshot was a brand-new constitution, with popular elections.
In downtown Caracas, where names are given to blocks and street corners (rather than to streets), is a block known as Cipreses-to-Velásquez. There one day last week, during the early-morning bustle of market-bound housewives, the political police closed in on the grill-windowed colonial...