Word: pan-african
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...commend the Pan-African Liberation Committee for forcefully bringing this issue to the community; we assume that since no edict of the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities has been violated, there will be no punishment; and we welcome the return of activist student involvement in the life of the University...
...first test of President Bok's skill as a crisis manager has developed from his confrontation Thursday with the Pan-African Liberation Committee. The Committee's demand that Harvard divest itself of its shares of Gulf Oil Corporation stock in protest of Gulf's policies in Angola has been met thus far with a confusing and contradictory response from...
...uppermost concern, he declared even before leaving Rome, was the bitter, two-year civil war between Nigeria and Biafra, but the trip had first been planned around the Pope's dedication of a shrine to 22 African martyrs.* He also consecrated twelve new African bishops and offered a thoughtful analysis of the African Church's spiritual role before a pan-African conference of Catholic prelates that had been meeting all week. Above all, the visit reaffirmed the Pope's concern for the future of the church in Africa...
...bishops and cardinals assembled in Kampala last week demonstrated that they were enjoying independence. They approved a plan to strengthen their autonomy with a permanent pan-African secretariat empowered to call meetings of the African bishops and act as a communications clearinghouse. When Pope Paul arrived in Kampala, he heartily endorsed their moves, both toward autonomy and a more vigorous effort to Africanize the church. In Rugaba Cathedral, Tanzania's Laurean Cardinal Rugambwa pledged the symposium's "total solidarity" with Rome (last year, the bishops had praised the Pope's birth control encyclical). Then Paul...
...African regions are divided neatly by a boundary running northeast through Ghana, Togo, Dahomey, Upper Volta, Niger, Mali, and into Algeria (see map). To the east of the boundary lies the Pan-African region, dated as 550 million years old. West of it is the 2-billion-year-old Eburnean area. According to Bullard, if the South American bulge had once fitted under the bulge of Africa, the continuance of the delineation between the two rock regions would be found running southwest through Brazil from a point near the city of Sao Luis 2,070 miles north...