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Though it is twice the size of Texas West Africa's arid, landlocked Mali Republic (pop. 3,700,000) has little claim to fame beyond being the place where Timbuctoo is. Last week the news from Timbuctoo, now a crumbling mud village on the edge of the Sahara, was that the Russians would soon be there...
Back in the days when it was still the French Sudan, Mali eked out a tenuous living on French colonial subsidies. When the Sudanese were granted autonomy from France in 1958, they sought to solve their economic problems by joining neighboring and more prosperous Senegal in the Mali Federation. But eight months ago, the Senegalese, fearful of Sudanese domination, seceded from the federation; they also refused the Sudanese (who stubbornly clung to the name Mali) further access to Senegal's great, modern port of Dakar. With no outlet to the sea and nothing to sell on world markets save...
Right from the start, the pickings were pretty fair. The French went on buying Mali's peanut crop at above-market prices, Britain furnished four DC-3s to get Air Mali into business, West Germany's Krupp advanced $6,000,000 in credits to permit the Mali government to buy 300 trucks, and the U.S. anted up $2,500,000, mostly in cement and gasoline. Entering enthusiastically into the competition, the Common Market nations jointly granted $2,700,000 for irrigation and medical supplies, and Red China signed a barter deal: Chinese machinery and building supplies for Mali...
Fortnight ago, Moscow got into the act. After treating half a dozen Mali officials to a princely tour of Russia, the Soviets came up with the handsomest offer yet: $44 million in long-term credits...
Hansberry's talk, entitled "African History and Its Relevance to Contemporary Affairs," emphasized the 3000-year cultural heritage of the so-called Dark Continent. He listed the great empires of ancient Africa, including many with familiar names: Ghana, Melle (Mali), and Ethiopia...