Word: jomo
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...England, at the hub of the British Empire, that Robeson discovered Africa, and learned about the black Africans' struggle against European colonialism. He stayed up nights talking with Jomo Kenyatta and Kwame Nkrumah, who were then students in London. He also witnessed the rise of fascism in Italy and Germany at close range; in 1938 Robeson went to Spain and sang for anti-Franco International Brigade, and was named one of only three honorary members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. His political consciousness aroused and troubled by Franco, Hitler and African colonialism, Robeson began to look back across the Atlantic...
...Rwanda and Burundi, which are both the poorest and most densely populated African countries (total pop. 8,300,000 in an area smaller than West Virginia), are too wrapped up in their own tribal rivalries to pay much attention to tensions elsewhere between blacks and whites. Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, the grand old man of African liberation, has kept Kenya out of the Rhodesian confrontation, perhaps because of the frustration he experienced while trying to mediate the Angolan civil war last year. Uganda plays a noisy but purely verbal role in the southern Africa drama. Uganda's dictator...
...speaking with far greater candor about the substance of the proposals put to Smith than anyone else had done all week. Next, Kissinger flew to Kinshasa to brief Zaïre's flamboyant President Mobutu Sese Seko, then on to Nairobi to see Kenya's venerable President Jomo Kenyatta. Led into the midst of 300 tribal dancers by his host, Kissinger attempted a few fumbling steps of his own before begging off with a quip: "Those who have seen me dance will know that we are in need of technical assistance from Kenya...
...pitfalls and pratfalls, Kissinger had come to Africa to announce, for the first time, a coherent and far-reaching American policy in the region. In a major policy speech, which he delivered in Lusaka, following a series of friendly talks with Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, Tanzania's Julius Nyerere and Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda, Kissinger forcefully aligned the U.S. with the proponents of black majority rule and against the white regimes of southern Africa. The U.S., he said, is "wholly committed to help bring about a rapid, just and African solution" in Rhodesia (which Kissinger pointedly referred...
Wielding his familiar giraffe-tail fly whisk, octogenarian Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta, 85, this week will welcome more than 3,000 delegates from 152 countries to Nairobi's Kenyatta Conference Center-a building that looks like a 350-ft.-tall hair curler. The occasion: the quadrennial meeting of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), a group set up in 1964 primarily to give poor countries a forum in which to air their economic problems. In its three previous gatherings, UNCTAD has produced an elephantine mass of paper but little of substance. UNCTAD IV, which will meet...