Word: rhodesia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have simply exported it. A distinguished Indian can dine at Claridge's in London, but not in the "Europeans Only" restaurants of Nairobi. If there is segregation in Kenya's schools (which there is), if a Negro woman must shop through a hatch in the wall in Rhodesia (which she must), the decent Englishman at home hears about it in no village pub, worries over it in no angry parish meeting. It all happens several thousand miles away, and in another country...
Samuel Songo, a Mashona tribesman of Southern Rhodesia, has a left arm that is like a magnificent piece of ebony sculpture. But the rest of his body is stunted and crippled; his reedy heron's legs are too frail to carry him, and he can use only two fingers at the end of his wizened right arm. When Africa was darkest, such human culls as Sam Songo were staked out for the leopards to rid them from the tribe. But Sam was allowed to live and to learn to carve living figures in stone with those two fingers...
Last week a collection of Songo's sculptures in polished, grey-blue wonderstone (an African soapstone) was on tour in England with a show of African primitives by young students of the Anglican Church's Cyrene school, near Bulawayo in Southern Rhodesia. Among pictures of Biblical scenes, painted in colors as vivid as parrot feathers, and chiseled Christs with kinky hair, the hit of the show was Songo's Prodigal Son. The moving, 15-inch figures of the rich father and dissolute son, like all the Negro artist's carvings, seemed to have in miniature...
Since 1945 Britain has poured billions into African development. Spread among so many who need so much, it sparked no great boom, yet in copper-rich Northern Rhodesia, one town grew so fast that its public-health officials were temporarily officed in a disused public lavatory, with boards nailed over the toilet seats to provide desks and chairs. Across the continent, Gold Coast and Nigeria are becoming useful dollar earners and an important British market...
...results of such rare good sense were little short of electrifying. Overnight, the Negro leaders called off the strike. Jasper Savanhu apologized: "I have now discovered that the white troops behaved correctly, and I unreservedly withdraw my allegation." Said another Negro: "Here in Rhodesia, the white man and the black man lie in the same bed. But the white man has kept the blanket, and the black man has tossed all night. Now we are getting a share of the blanket...