Word: settlers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there is one thing a white settler in British Africa despises more than an "insolent" black, it is a troublesome member of the British Labor Party. When red-haired Barbara Castle, a member of the British House of Commons, had the presumption to dine with a black M.P. in Salisbury's topflight Meikle's Hotel, Southern Rhodesians were scandalized at her bringing along a "munt" (from a Bantu word for man, used by Rhodesians as a rough equivalent of the U.S.'s "nigger"). Last week Southern Rhodesia was hard at it again with Labor, this time over...
...streets of Kitale, crowds cheered his every appearance, and Kenya's nationalist leaders, led by Tom Mboya, came to pay him homage. In Nairobi a nervous government seized 34 nationalists, banned an extremist white-settler newspaper as well as Tom Mboya's Uhuru (Freedom), which has been playing up Kenyatta as a national hero. The government insists that Kenyatta's simile was not meant to be innocent: the roots of the fig tree seem to disappear only because they go so deep...
...hoped that the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia could unite with the protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland to form a federation whose eventual goal would be an independent dominion within the Commonwealth. Nyasaland, with its over 99 per cent black population, feared domination by the strong white settler population of Southern Rhodesia; but it was hoped that the Federation would help both areas economically and would constitute a buffer betwen the reactionary white government of South Africa and the pure black territories to the North...
Largely under the liberal pressure of the Colonial Office in London, the Federal government, which was soon dominated by the white settler population of Southern Rhodesia, has allowed reduced segregation, university integration, and limited participation of Africans in government. But the scale and speed of these advances have not satisfied the increasingly articulate nationalists, who fear that if the Federation is accorded dominion status when the question comes up in 1960, the colonialists will take advantage of their independence to suppress African rights. In line with the official policy, originally that of Cecil Rhodes, of giving the vote to every...
...Sacramento, Calif. Every week, while the train fights thirst, Indians and renegade whites, Bond has had to take time out to handle the wild and woolly characters with which his scriptwriters people the West. In A Man Called Horse, beefy Ralph ("Picnic") Meeker turned up as an ignorant settler who had been handed over as a slave to a matriarchal Indian squaw. In The Annie MacGregor Story, a migrating Scottish clan drove off marauding Indians with their skirling pipes. In The Liam Fitzmorgan Story, a group of Celtic types learned about the vengeance of the Irish underground. By the time...