Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hero of Tanganyika's advance, black and white agree, is 38-year-old Julius Nyerere, a cheerful, toothbrush-mustached former schoolteacher whose fight for independence has made him Tanganyika's-and East Africa's-foremost African leader. "Uhuru!" (Freedom), screamed 5,000 of his supporters as they...
Although Edinburgh-educated Nyerere dislikes some parts of the new agreement with Britain, he has agreed to support it for four years before taking the next step, full African self-rule. He even insists that the civil service (2,800 whites, 300 Africans) remain predominantly British until Tanganyikans can be...
In the Belgian Congo, young King Baudouin arrived on a hastily planned flight from Brussels to see for himself what could be salvaged from Belgium's tattered colonial policy. Until last week Minister of the Congo Auguste de Schrijver clung fiercely to the line that the Belgian Congo Africans...
The European imperialists regarded them as rivals. The Spanish in the Philippines were nearly wiped out before they rallied to slaughter 23,000 Chinese at Manila in 1603. At midcentury, a Chinese exile and pirate named Koxinga drove the Dutch from Formosa; later the Dutch retaliated by wholesale murders of...
In Nairobi a young British colonist shot his black houseboy to death for throwing stones at his dog. Arrested, he duly went on trial before an all-white jury. In times past he could expect acquittal or, at worst, a conviction for manslaughter. But a new colonial government has promised...