Word: continente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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IN 1936, while Italian journalists hissed from the galleries, a slight, regal figure appeared before the League of Nations in poignant protest against the invasion of his country by Mussolini. That year Emperor Haile Selassie, a proud ruler who lived to see his country free once again, became the first...
As week after week the drive picks up momentum, Africa seems in perpetual need of new maps. When Touré was born, Liberia and Ethiopia were the only independent states on the continent. Today there are another eight-Egypt, the Sudan, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, the Union of South Africa. Ghana...
In a sense, he was born in the right place and with the right ancestry to favor a big role. Though Africa was, until the Europeans came, the continent that could not write, it had known its times of glory. Guinea was once part of the powerful Mali Empire that...
In four short months Guinea has apparently learned that independence is a relative thing. It will not be easy for Africa to be completely itself, for no other continent has been so swept by foreign influence. Islam stretches not only across its top, but deep into the south-as far...
One trip last August was to London in pursuance of a simple but ingenious scheme for raising money: Hume planned to rob a bank close to the international airport and then return to the Continent on a commercial plane for which he had made a reservation. Hume chose a branch...