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* Though William of Orange and George III both imported private regiments from the Continent for their use.
For centuries, Ethiopia's proud Amharas-who claim descent from a night's roistering between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba-shunned black Africans as barya (slaves). But when the emerging black African states began getting voice in world affairs, the Emperor started to fire off letters...
With increasingly totalitarian methods, the white leaders of South Africa are building a southern redoubt for a last-ditch stand against black nationalism on their bottom tip of the continent. Last week the government of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd proposed new legislation that will snuff out basic freedoms of all...
In the U.S. this week, for the regulation Washington round of banquets and Manhattan ticker-tape parade, is Ivory Coast's debonair President Felix Houphouet-Boigny, 56, an African nationalist whose credo is refreshingly different from the views of many other black African leaders. Colonialism, he believes, did much...
What makes Houphouet-Boigny's beliefs important is his position as undisputed boss of the strongest, fastest growing and most influential of all the nations in Africa's former French Community, a fragmented empire that dominates the continent's huge western shoulder.