Word: uhuru
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...Secretary of State were out of the country, she even filled in briefly as her nation's chief executive. Much of her work at the U.N. has involved the transformation of former colonial states into independent countries. Miss Brooks can view black Africa's yearning for uhuru, or independence, from a unique position. She is a leading figure in the continent's oldest republic -founded in 1847 by black freedmen from the U.S. She also claims descent from a back-country tribe rather than from one of Liberia's elite founding "honorables," and so knows something...
INSIDE, a gaunt black St. Nicholas and an Uhuru poster, chains broken, decorate the walls of the modern office of Freedom Industries, Inc.--a new attempt in Boston to make black power mean money. Downtown Roxbury -- dirty streets sandwiched between grey buildings, and the problems of ghetto poverty--waits outside...
...Uhuru," independence, in 1963 ushered in a new Kenya. Africans became the wielders of political power; Asians were given the choice between Kenyan citizenship or the full rights of British subjects. Some Asians, particularly the Ishmaeli community, put their hopes in an integrated society and applied for Kenyan citizenship. But the majority of Asians, roughly 100,000 out of about 160,000, took the British option. With vivid memories of the slaughter of Arabs on the nearby island of Zanzibar in 1962, they feared future instances of African racism and xenophobia. Also, it was clear that the sluggish economy could...
...Asians left Kenya during the first years of Uhuru, since Africanization of jobs took place slowly. Only last autumn did political pressure to place Africans in the main fields of Asian activity lead to new restrictions. Determined to break the Asian hold on trade and semi-skilled jobs, the African-dominated Government required all non-citizens to have working permits and all traders and merchants to have licenses. Discrimination figured in many cases--permits were granted slowly, often for very short periods, and the awarding of licenses openly favored Africans, even if the Asians were citizens. The Government's solution...
...Funky Deal," delivered under a banner of Malcolm's face. In Washington, two observances were marked by quiet meditation, and efforts to shut Negro classrooms and urge workers off their jobs for the day proved largely ineffectual. As his followers listened to tapes of the uhuru guru, the Black Power movement that he helped model was facing a conflict between its words and deeds...