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...Publication of a manifesto on African socialism, the first sober attempt to limn a realistic concept out of the woolly catch phrase so beloved of African speechmakers. Remarkably restrained and reasoned, it rejects 19th century capitalism and 20th century Communism as a model for emergent African society. Instead, the document points to a mixed economy very like modern Britain or Sweden, strongly emphasizes individual political freedoms. Though Kenyatta insisted that the paper, written by Economics Planning Minister Tom Mboya, was approved by all his Cabinet, it was clearly a bitter blow for Odinga...
This is not so much a book as a rock thrown through the windows of the West. It is the Communist Manifesto or the Mein Kampf of the anticolonial revolution, and as such it is highly important for any Western reader who wants to understand the emotional force behind that revolution. But the readers of the work who really matter are the would-be leaders in the jungles and mountains of Africa and Asia. Its ideas have already found bloody reality in the Simba massacres in the Congo, in the shouts of Indonesia's Sukarno against "neocolonialism...
Democracy is not a formula but a living process, not an ideology but a hope about the nature of man. Hence it cannot be applied from a handbook or manifesto to different peoples. It must work for the free-swinging Latin who instinctively distrusts authority and, at the other end of the emotional scale, for the passive Asian who instinctively obeys authority-or ignores...
...Roman Catholics like the Mass in English. Belgian-born Theologian Gommar De Pauw, 46, of Mount St. Mary's Seminary in Maryland likes it so little that he has organized a "Catholic Traditionalist Movement," which recently delivered a manifesto to the nation's bishops, charging that liturgical reform is part of a scheme to "Protestantize" Catholic worship and doctrine...
...know anything at all about Negroes," Michael Roemer says in discussing his film--" except what I know about myself." Roemer and his colleague Robert Young address their film to individuals; it is not a manifesto or an appeal. The hero is a young Negro in the south, trying to be a man, a father to his child, a husband to his wife...