Word: moroccos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inferior black majority of his countrymen in permanent subjection. After him came the face of Black Africa nationalism- Ghana's Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah in 1953. In the north, the same anticolonial stir-ups agitated the Arabs, and TIME showed the faces of King Mohammed V of Morocco, which won its independence in 1956, and of Ferhat Abbas, head of Algeria's rebel government-in-exile, whose story is not yet finished. Now comes young, vigorous Sékou Touré of Guinea, the man who said "No" to De Gaulle and who has become...
...week after week the drive picks up momentum, Africa seems in perpetual need of new maps. When Touré was born, Liberia and Ethiopia were the only independent states on the continent. Today there are another eight-Egypt, the Sudan, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, the Union of South Africa. Ghana and Toure's own Guinea. In the land known as "Black Africa"* four more territories-the Cameroons. Togoland, Somalia and the vast land of Nigeria, Britain's biggest colonial possession-will be free...
...desperate moments, Algerian rebel leaders spoke of "spreading the war" by involving Tunisia and Morocco in it too. The rulers of Tunisia and Morocco, torn between natural sympathy for their Algerian "brothers" and their own economic links with the French, hope to stay out. Three years after winning independence from France, both countries are plagued with poverty, unemployment and threats to authority...
...MOROCCO. King Mohammed V, 49, has tried to be a "man of balance.'' but the scales are rapidly breaking down. All the King's men are agitating-city workers, rural tribesmen, worried businessmen and politicians squabbling for power. "I don't know where my people want to go," says the King. "But if they turn toward the East. I won't stand in their way. I'll abdicate...
...have been chosen by a college of ulema. or religious judges. He is French-educated, intelligent, can exude kilowatts of charm. As commander in chief of the royal army fighting the rebels in the Rif (TIME, Dec. 22) and around Fez, he takes his job seriously, works hard. But Morocco's young nationalists do not hide their dislike for the prince and his way of life. Only a few weeks ago a Berlin businessman sued luxury-loving Moulay Hassan and his French actress friend Etchika Choureau for 45 million francs ($90,000) in debts...