Word: congo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Uneven Leadership. Since then, civil wars have ravaged two of Black Africa's biggest, most populous and potentially richest nations, the Congo and Nigeria. No fewer than 28 countries have experienced either a coup or a serious disturbance. Ten have been forced to call in foreign troops for help. Last month Guinea was invaded by a 350-man band that may have included Portuguese troops as well as Guinean dissidents...
...Kenneth Kaunda. Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, like Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie, is an elder statesman who has imposed a degree of stability on his heterogeneous country. Of the soldiers who now rule nine African nations, at least two-Nigeria's Yakubu Gowon and the Congo's Joseph Mobutu-have restored order to their countries after years of chaos...
...casualties among Africa's first generation of leaders have been heavy; Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Balewa, Togo's Sylvanus Olympio, the Congo's Patrice Lumumba were all killed. Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah was overthrown in 1966; Kenya's brilliant young Tom Mboya was assassinated...
...Africanism was more vibrant than it is now: "Africa is like a human body. If one finger is cut, the whole body feels the pain." Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere sent $1,500,000 in aid to Guinea. Libya dispatched arms. Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya and the Congo-Kinshasa promised help. Somalia opened recruiting centers for volunteers to fight in Guinea. University students demonstrated against white colonialism in Lusaka, Abidjan and Dar es Salaam. In Lagos, students toted placards reading DOWN WITH NATO and shouted "Go home, pigs!" at white passersby...
...merely one of the supporting lounge acts; they were the "Stopless Topless Skin" and the "Va Va Va Voom" go-go shows. So Proudly was the headline attraction in the hotel's main Congo Room. The nine girls in its 18-member troupe were, of course, not topless or even braless, but all in shimmering red and white. Their show was 90 minutes of All-Americana, professionally rendered, "saluting what's good and right in America." They hymned what Choral Director Johnny Mann called "purty stuff, sentimental stuff and nostalgia," including Roaring Twenties tunes, a historical recitative...