Word: mukasa
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...C.N.S. Mukasa of Uganda, like a Zen master suggesting but never defining, described the African personality as "mystical and yet very tangible to us." As it emerges from colonial rule, Africa feels a compelling need to claim its own place among the world's peoples, he said. However, the Balliol-educated intellectual cautioned against "throwing away" all traces of the colonial inheritance, for Africa will develop an eclectic civilization...
...issue of pan-Africanism, Mukasa urged a go-slow policy as new nations consider various schemes of regional and even continental union. "First," he said, "the national house must be put in order...
...role of the Arab northern tier in a pan-African future, and possible tribal and regional conflicts in the developing continent. When a girl asked if Communism posed a threat to Uganda and what was being done to combat its influence, others in the audience hissed, and Mukasa smilingly said that Communism finds "no fertile ground" in his country...