Word: somali
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Political parties: 3. Voters: 90%. Despite such heroically padded election figures, there is little interest in politics. Ruling, radical Somali Youth League is run by Moslems who could hold their own in Chicago-style politics, have wheedled mighty loans from East and West...
...aspires to the leadership of Africa, sounded somewhat hollow-and with good reason. The 100-odd delegates from 31 African countries were largely second-string (the exception: Kenya's Tom Mboya, who goes everywhere). And the "brothers in arms" were soon at one another's throats. Somali delegates tried to denounce Ethiopian border attacks, and had to be ejected...
...covenant signed between the Europeans and the Africans -no similar document of this same relationship is likely to be drawn up again." Many writers affect to understand Africa; Author Dinesen accepts and respects its opacities ("All roots demand darkness"). She draws a memorable portrait of Farah, her face-conscious Somali majordomo, "unfailingly loyal, a cheetah noiselessly following me about at a distance of five feet, or a falcon holding onto my finger with strong talons and turning his head right and left...
Some of the uncommitted were tentative; all were self-centered. "We are the new boys at school." confided a tall, broad-shouldered delegate from Niger. "We are just watching to see how the others behave.'' A fragile Somali in an embroidered cap added, "We are interested in what concerns Africa. We do not care to become involved in the struggles between the great powers." But they also found a new pride in themselves, an awareness of growing importance...
...African student associations "like Africans have at universities everywhere." They were watched wherever they went by young Russian Komsomols, who even shared their dormitory quarters. Their big trouble started when they tried to complain of Russian racism. Their Communist sponsors were incensed when they reported that a young Somali student was beaten unconscious last May when he asked a Russian girl to dance with him. Soviet authorities even called a meeting to persuade African students to deny the story. When Ayih not only refused to cooperate but joined in fresh complaints to the university rector and to the Ministry...