Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...onetime colonial masters. Europe's 19th century exploiters fashioned frontiers that afforded them the greatest prestige and economic gain. They frequently cut tribes or peoples in two-or sometimes three. One legacy of colonial mapmaking can be found in East Africa, where Somalia claims parts of Kenya and Ethiopia because of the large numbers of Somalis in those countries...
...recruiting professors for the program, Harvard chose men who are uniformly competent and in some cases outstanding. The introductory course in black civilization, for example, is being taught by Dr. Ephraim Isaac, a lecturer from Ethiopia who speaks seven languages fluently and holds a number of degrees, including a recent Ph.D. from Harvard. Fred Clifton, another visiting lecturer who teaches a course about Boston's Negro community, is the kind of man blacks more often have in mind when they discuss the "qualifications" that professors in Afro-American studies ought to have. Clifton has only a B.A. degree...