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...WAWA, meaning "West Africa Wins Again." To the newsmen scrambling to cover the sudden collapse of the breakaway state of Biafra, last week was WAWA and then some. At the moment of victory for Nigeria, the nearest TIME Correspondent was James Wilde, 1,000 miles away in Kinshasa, the Congo. He could just as well have been on the moon. Defeated by bureaucracy and the vagaries of travel in Africa, Wilde was forced to assess the situation on the basis of long experience in the war and previous interviews with Biafran Leader Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu...
...CONGO REPUBLIC The Hammer and the Hoe Not even Guinea, for all its flirtations with Moscow and Peking, had gone so far. In Brazzaville last week, the new banner of the Congo Republic was fluttering atop flagpoles, boasting a crossed hammer and hoe (the sickle, it seems, is not used in equatorial Africa) surmounted by the traditional gold star. The country was rechristened the People's Republic of the Congo-not to be confused with the former Belgian Congo, now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. National assembly functions were taken over by a central committee consisting...
...tribal. All 18 were members or close relatives of the Bakongo tribe, whose members make up nearly half of the country's 900,000 population. The current rulers are northerners, members of a group of anti-Bakongo minority tribes. As an African diplomat summed it up: "The Brazzaville Congo has become the world's first tribal Communist state -and that, of course, is a contradiction in terms...
...refugee is an all too common figure in modern Africa. He has appeared in Kenya and the Congo, the Sudan and Nigeria, his belongings piled in an ungainly bundle atop his head, his children skipping naked alongside, his path a dusty road leading nowhere. Still, familiar as the phenomenon may be, there is a particularly nightmarish quality to the scene that has been unfolding in recent weeks along the borders of the West African nation of Ghana...
...hell all that noise about My Lai? The story of humanity is a long, uninterrupted list of atrocities. I remember the Spanish War, Lidice, Babi Yar, Korea, Algeria, the Congo, Mozambique, day after day after day-children murdered-all in my generation...