Word: rhodesia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...east in race-conscious Kenya, elected Africans are taking their seats for the first time in the governing councils of the white man, though only as a minority. In central Africa, just to the south, in a desperate race against time, the blacks, whites and Asians of British Rhodesia and Nyasaland are trying to learn how to submerge their differences in a common federation, and experimenting with graduated extension of the franchise so that the outnumbered whites can maintain their dominance. Paced by the British, with the frightening memory of yesterday's Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya to spur...
Prejudice, distrust and intolerance lurk everywhere like the lions and leopards in the still dark forests, between the educated and uneducated, between tribe and tribe, between black, white and Asian. Proud white settlers in Rhodesia, who now consider themselves more African than European, refer contemptuously to their advanced black partners as "Fags," short for Federated African Gentlemen. The Moslem Fulani of Nigeria's north consider the energetic Ibos of the nationalistic, Christian and pagan east no better than barbarians...
...first trip to Africa just after graduation from Vassar, Mrs. Hubbard accompanied her husband, a geologist. Instead of mining asbestos as planned, they spent three years in Northern Rhodesia and Portuguese North Africa capturing animals for zoos...
...Hubbard then returned twice to help produce Paramount's film "Gold" and Warner Brothers' "Adventures in Africa." The latter was filmed in the Kafue Flats of Northern Rhodesia, which is also the setting of her new book...
...nation could ask for better citizens than the members of Rhodesia's Apostolic Sabbath Church of God. Forswearing tobacco, alcohol and profanity, they live and care for one another in close community under a religious code in which even physical uncleanliness is punishable by excommunication. In 1947 some 600 men, women and children of the Sabbath Church went to South Africa to weave baskets and make furniture in Korsten, a suburb of Port Elizabeth. Their industry and thrift led to a prosperous industry...