Word: guinea
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...colonial power has felt the sting of Black Africa's invective. One unlikely exception is General Francisco Franco's Spain, which still presides over a small African colonial empire of 120,000 sq. mi. and 1,400,000 people. Spain's African provinces-Spanish Sahara, Spanish Guinea, the Canary Islands and three scattered coastal outposts-stand out as a rare casebook of how to win friends and create prosperity on a violently turbulent continent. Now Spain is preparing to grant independence by July 15 to the most prosperous and politically mature of its African possessions, Spanish Guinea...
Working Off Steam. Today, the brightest jewel in Spain's African crown is Spanish Guinea, which Consists of the verdant, volcanic island of Fernando Poo, a few other smaller islands and the larger, rain-forest mainland province of Rio Muni. Thanks to steady help from Madrid, Fernando Poo boasts bountiful harvests of coffee, bananas and cocoa. It has a model road system, one of Africa's highest rates of primary school attendance (89%) and per capita income ($246)-and probably its biggest leisure class. When the Spanish government gave the island's Bubi tribesmen their own farms...
...came down here from Harvard to look at us Negroes so you can go back and tell them how we eat and what we think of Stokely Carmichael. I'm not your guinea pig. What's Shaw paying you for? You should be paying...
...more and more research efforts--particularly in education--involve the construction of model systems which use blacks as guinea pigs, ghetto communities are also questioning the competence of whites to construct answers to black problems. When Professor Robert Anderson of the School of Education failed to put any blacks on his task force planning 17 ghetto schools, Roxbury literally screamed with anger...
...last two years, UNESCO has concerned itself closely with the problems of wiping out illiteracy. A 1965 Teheran Conference marked the start of a six country project. The six countries-- Iran, Mali, Algeria, Ecuador, Guinea, and Tanzania--were chosen from the 50 applicants for their "readiness": they all more or less had successful literacy programs under way already; and the governments were willing to apportion a good deal of energy--and money (60 per cent of cost)--to the program...