Word: ethiopia
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...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 and Toure's own Guinea. In the land known as "Black Africa"* four more territories-the Cameroons. Togoland, Somalia and the vast land of Nigeria, Britain's biggest colonial possession-will be free...
...would become just one more platform for anticolonialist tirades-European colonial powers had opposed setting up a U.N. commission for Africa like those already in existence for Asia, Europe and Latin America. Not until last spring, and after U.S. prompting, did the U.N. finally establish the E.G.A. headquarters in Ethiopia, oldest independent nation on the continent. Membership: six European nations, nine independent African countries, and associates from colonial and trust territories. In a continent with a bewildering array of problems and a disheartening lack of experience, the commission hopes to help raise living standards by pooling economic information and skill...
...Dessie, Ethiopia Four Horsemen Sir: The identification of the first two Horse men in Revelations seems so obvious that I am amazed at ex-President Hoover's attempt [TIME, Sept. 29] to make the second Horse man stand for Revolution. On a red horse, with a great sword, he takes "peace from the earth"and makes men "kill one another...
...offer was stories, but it was a blase man indeed who could walk away from Otto's tales of how his skill at magic won him the honorary chieftainship of an African Pygmy tribe, or of the time that he tried to elope with the Emperor of Ethiopia's daughter...
...week's end, the conference passed a resolution giving to Algerian rebels just about everything they asked. Equally important: Ghana, Liberia and Ethiopia, which had hitherto expressed only vague solidarity, seemed ready to offer material help, probably in the form of food. All in all, Yazid, who officially should not have been at Nkrumah's conference at all, came close to stealing the African Personality show...