Word: guineans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Advocate begins its first issue with a dandy little story by Keith Lowe. New Day, as it is called, tells of the first day of Guinean independence as recorded by a semi-literate citizen who becomes a temporary constable to prevent riots during the country's first election. The plot is ingenious and very funny, but the great virtue of the piece lies in its marvelous prose. The narrator's naivete permits him to speak in wild, enthusiastic language, which sounds neither maudlin nor contrived: They crying no more blackman sweat to sweeten whiteman tea, no more for coolie...
Touré's own earlier Marxist learnings gave the Communists a head start, and they have held the advantage by offering what seemed easy terms to Guinean officials who were not familiar with the tricks of Soviet price rigging (many banana merchants later discovered they could have got a better deal in Western Europe...