Word: nationhood
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SINCE 1956, more than 100 million Africans have won their independence. In the U.N. Assembly, they carry considerable weight. Their attitudes are considered part of "world opinion," their allegiance is eagerly sought by East and West, and their new nationhood is widely celebrated as progress. Yet by any measurement, material or spiritual, most of the new Africa still is a long, heartbreaking distance away from modern civilization...
...Gaulle named a veteran French diplomat and a recently jailed Moslem businessman to preside over Algeria's difficult transition to nationhood...
...stood France, which had carried Western civilization into the desert and, despite vast errors of judgment, had built a country in North Africa that had been part of France for more than a century. On the other side were the poor, scattered Arab tribes of Algeria, which found their nationhood in the war. On both sides, there had been fanaticism, brutality and torture. For a time, it seemed as if the Moslems had lost all moderation, as if France had lost her conscience...
Today, for the first time since Daia, Algeria again stands on the brink of nationhood-and again the event was preceded by waves of blood...
...more than a dozen countries on three continents that have won independence from Britain since World War II, none has seemed so ill-prepared for nationhood as Kenya. Yet British officials fear a bloody resurgence of Mau Mau savagery if Kenya does not get its freedom from British rule in the near future -possibly by the end of this year. Thus, once again, Africa's remote and bizarre tribal politics were thrust at puzzled European officials who were trying to give a colonial country freedom without chaos...