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When it fought with U.N. forces in the Congo, the Nigerian army's 5th Battalion took special pride in its rigid military discipline. That was only three years ago, but as far as Nigeria is concerned, it is the remote past. Last week the 5th's proud tradition collapsed in an orgy of mass savagery that rivaled anything the Congo had ever known...
There always seems to be some excuse for violence in the Congo, and the violence nearly always involves either Kisangani, the city once known as Stanleyville, or Katanga, the stronghold of exiled ex-Premier Moise Tshombe. In the past few weeks, it has involved both...
Diplomatic Break. Mobutu seized the occasion to launch a general political attack on his enemies everywhere. Tshombe, he claimed, was using his exile in Madrid to mount a plot against the Congo's military government, hiring mercenaries in Europe, training them in southern France, and, with Portuguese collusion, massing troops across the Congolese border in Angola...
Black Africa's Image. Basic to Verwoerd's policies is the argument that black Africans cannot govern themselves, much less the whites. It is an argument that most white South Africans are more than ready to believe. Every time there is a crisis in the Congo or bloodshed in Nigeria, the whites nod knowingly and tell each other that "you can't expect anything else from the bloody kaffirs." Kwame Nkrumah's tyrannical rule over Ghana was hailed as proof that Africans were still too uncivilized to run their own affairs, but when he was overthrown...
There has indeed been plenty of instability in the black African nations since they were granted independence. The Congo has been in perpetual chaos, the Sudan has been unable to cope with the rebellion of its anti-Moslem south against its Moslem north. Three East African nations have had to put down military uprisings, and the governments of eight countries have fallen before military coups. In addition, only a handful of Africa's new countries have maintained any semblance of the multiparty democracy that they inherited from their departing European colonists...