Word: malis
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Jettisoned Cargo. The white man did not invent slavery. For centuries the tribes along the Guinea coast (the 4,000 miles of West African coastline stretching from present-day Mali to Angola) had made slaves of one another. But the insatiable European slavers, trading in guns, powder and rum, set off an ever-widening wave of violence. Rival tribes raided incessantly and reached out into the interior for fresh supplies of victims...
...African nation to gain its freedom in a year, and the 28th since 1956. Even informed observers are becoming dazed by the endless roll call of big and little new nations that sound more and more like commuter stops on a train to Timbuctoo: Gambia, Upper Volta, Chad, Dahomey, Mali, Gabon...
...settling for suburban elegance. Mali is following the lead of such other African nations as Guinea, Nigeria and the Ivory Coast, which last year bought a 36-room mansion for its U.N. ambassador on Long Island. One unvoiced reason for the exodus is the difficulty that Africans have encountered in obtaining adequate quarters in New York City. And. like those of many other small nations, Mali's foreign service is largely concentrated in the U.N. -it has only eight other ambassadors throughout the world outside Africa...
Therefore, Mali's negotiations with other nations are mostly conducted in New York, and Malians believe that their ambassador should be housed in style...
...Mali's annual per capita income is $53, and its national budget this year amounted to a sizable $58 million. It recently got a U.S. grant of $2,500,000, while Communist-bloc aid has totaled some $100 million over the past two years. But its most pressing need is for still more foreign...