Word: pan-africanism
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...excitement was in anticipation of this week's pan-African "summit" conference of some 30 African heads of state. Never before had so many leaders of Africa sat down in the same place at the same time, and their proud host, the aging (70) Ethiopian Emperor, was out at the airport in person with his green-and-black Rolls-Royce to greet many of his illustrious guests, including Liberia's President William V. Shadrach Tubman, who arrived five days early so as to squeeze in a state visit...
...chocolate-skinned Robert Sobukwe, 38, head of the black nationalist Pan-African Congress, was sentenced to three years in jail for "incitement to riot." As his release date drew near last week, Sobukwe, a slim onetime university lecturer, was hustled from the maximum-security prison in Pretoria to a bleak detention camp on Robben Island in Table Bay, six miles from Cape Town. There he learned, just the day before he was to receive freedom, that South Africa's Parliament had rammed through a new security act empowering Justice Minister Johannes Vorster to keep political prisoners in custody indefinitely...
Into the Sea. According to Black Nationalist Potlako Leballo, who fled to the British-ruled enclave of Basutoland, Poqo is a terrorist offshoot of Sobukwe's militant Pan-African Congress and is determined to "murder the whites or chase them into the sea." As it turned out, Leballo's big mouth did Poqo more harm than good. Embarrassed British officials ordered his arrest, and he barely escaped into Basutoland's rugged mountains, leaving behind him a list of 10,000 black rebels in South Africa. Thanks either to coincidence or to Basutoland's connivance, South African...
...Kennedy has been lucky. Despite all Allied protests he has been for the Congo expedition from the start, and his tenacity has finally begun to pay off. Although he has made dimly glimpsed alternatives absolutely impossible, he has put himself in a position to cash side bets on gaining pan-African esteem. But this week remains crucial. He and U Thant will have lost everything all over again unless they realize that the Thant plan can only be temporarily satisfactory. Having nearly washed Mr. Tshombe down the drain, they must now help see to it that the problem of federating...
Touré has grandiose dreams of leading a Pan-African movement, an ego to match the dreams, and a deep streak of authoritarianism in his makeup-all standard equipment for the modern African leader. His picture is everywhere-on money, stamps, even women's dresses. He brooks no opposition, requires all but the bedridden to show up for "spontaneous" demonstrations, punishing those who do not with "voluntary labor." Even so, recent visitors describe him as a man who has abandoned his dogmatic Marxism for pragmatism. Western diplomats are hopeful that Touré had enough of a Communist dose...