Word: feudality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coffee plantation in the Ngong hill country of Kenya, an Africa now dead beyond recall and yet startlingly alive in these recollections. Characteristically, her theme -the relation of master and servant-would embarrass many contemporary writers to the roots of their social consciousness, but from her it evokes feudal harmonies rooted in a blood consciousness as profound as the roles of father and son, husband and wife. Her mood-dry, elegiac, wounded yet unbleeding-strongly echoes that of the aristocratic author of the brilliant 19th century Sicilian chronicle and recent bestseller, The Leopard; this somehow befits a woman whose African...
What sundered the feudal serenity of the black-white relationship in Africa? Not an upper white caste, insists the baroness, but a lower white class: "We should have looked at the quality of those who settled in Africa rather than get as many whites settled as possible. We should have had an elite which could have educated the black lower class...
...Saud practiced the gritty game of desert politics that he had learned on horseback at the side of his one-eyed warrior father Ibn Saud. First he moved grandly to the left of his brother Feisal, intrigued the kingdom's newspaper editors with talk of a transition from feudal to parliamentary rule (TIME, May 30). Then he flew to West Germany, drew out $50 million which he had providently tucked away in a bank there, came home and set off on royal safaris across the desert, dispensing largesse to tribal chieftains. Over the past twelve months, Saud has married...
...Hunt. Would the revolt, and fear of worse to come, lead to any changes in Haile Selassie's feudal monarchy? "None at all," said the durable Emperor. But he seemed suddenly old, tired, and sad. Grimly his troops hunted through the nearby hills for the two chief leaders of the revolt-a Columbia University-educated provincial governor named Germame Newaye and his brother Brigadier General Mengistu Newaye, Commander of the Imperial Guard...
...true constitutional monarchy, and to allow the creation of political parties-for which his father has no taste. In the Congo, Ethiopian Chargé d'Affaires Sabour Ahadou gleefully got out a statement hailing the coup as "the long-awaited revolution that marks the end of centuries of feudal oppression, injustice, arbitrary personal rule, corruption, suppression of fundamental human rights and the imprisonment of thousands of people...