Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Simple Solution. As a forceful and outspoken member of Kenya's legislative council, he was a constant thorn in the side of Colonial Office authority, inveighing now against the menace of the growing Indian community, now against softness in treatment of the blacks, now against the excessive pomp...
Man with Six Tails. Alarmed by his agitation for Nigerian independence, the colony's British authorities in 1937 tried unsuccessfully to convict Zik of sedition, and in the decade that followed, some times had as many as six detectives tailing him at once. In the past few years, how...
Winning Ways. Kwame Nkrumah had a particular reason for wanting to win decisively. Should he win "a reasonable majority in a newly elected legislature," the British Colonial Office had promised, the Gold Coast would get "a firm date" for independence, become the first black nation in the Commonwealth. Nkrumah, onetime...
* In the crushing process, Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd noted last week, 105 Cypriot youths aged 14-18, and 13 boys under the age of 14, have been sentenced to whipping.
"How much liberty is there in North Korea or North Viet Nam? What has happened to ancient Tibet? We must all frankly face this question: Where there is a threat of Communist colonial imperialism is a nation really safe in striking out alone?"