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...Dakar, and the Ivory Coast's University of Abidjan, together enrolling fewer than 3,000 students. Though Senegal's economy is almost completely grounded on farming, there is no school of agriculture at the brightly flowered, Dakar campus. In the Congo (Léopoldville), the University of Lovanium proudly displays one of Africa's few nuclear reactors. As a result, it has dozens of black students solving mysteries of nuclear physics, only a handful learning engineering and medicine. Lovanium's classics-oriented curriculum is based on that of its parent school, Louvain of Belgium; thus first...
...first time in ten months, the Congo's fledgling Parliament reassembled last week in Lovanium University's handsome modern auditorium. Isolated from outside influences by an electrified barbed-wire fence, patrols of police dogs and Indian machine gunners of the U.N. force, the legislators made a forlorn stab at statesmanship. That it failed was largely the fault of two bedridden absentees: Red lining Antoine Gizenga, boss of Eastern province and heir apparent of Lumumba, and round-faced Moise Tshombe, President of the separatist state of Katanga...
...long, electrified fence around Leopoldville's Lovanium University was in place and ready for Parliament to begin. United Nations troops waited to take up their posts as guards to ensure that no liquor, women or bribe money was smuggled in to addle the judgment of the Deputies. Only thing missing was the legislators themselves. Just at the moment when it seemed that the Congo's Parliament would reconvene to reunite the divided Congo nation, the whole project collapsed...
...Equatorial Africans are now studying in Paris). But the Belgians have made no such effort: the roiling Belgian Congo has no university graduates capable of running an independent state. Belgium tried, but too late. It sank $9,000,000 into the Congo's five-year-old University of Lovanium near Leopoldville, a glittering campus that even boasts Africa's first nuclear reactor. But this year Lovanium (370 students) will graduate only a dozen Africans, and the newer University of Elisabethville (260 students) will produce even fewer...
Belgium's plan for the inevitable march to self-government for Africans lies in education and economic opportunity for the blacks. The multiracial, Catholic-run Lovanium University will graduate its first Negro lawyers and engineers next year. At Luluabourg, deep in the heart of the Congo, black cadets are training at the colony's first military academy. Nowhere in Africa is there such a solid, well-paid class of native technicians. Congolese pilot river and lake steamers, run locomotives, do 90% of the repair work at the big military base at Kamina. But Africans are still segregated...
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