Word: africanists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...replaced as president by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, 56, who has effectively run the government since being anointed by Mandela as his successor two years ago. Although the former ANC diplomat?s competence is unimpeachable, the South African media is awash with speculation about whether Mbeki is an Africanist ideologue or a pragmatist, a democrat or an authoritarian. But with media interviews extremely rare and leaks from his inner circle unheard of, almost everything written about Mbeki is entirely speculative. Suffice it to say that in light of Mbeki's effective governance of the country for much of Mandela...
...When I first came...he was the only Africanist here," said Mark A Kishlansky, Baird professor of history and associate dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. "He supported the field of African history and kept it going at Harvard...
Supermarket shelves emptied last week as South Africans stocked up, expecting the worst. When Lucas Mangope was ousted from Bophuthatswana last month widespread looting occurred, prompting a Pan Africanist Congress representative to make the sage remark: "We are merely taking back from whites what they took from...
...American--or "New World"--context. Such an awareness, he claims, is essential to combat existing misconceptions of Africa and must be a part of the "Eveready life of ordinary people in the Black community around this country." West also insists that the importance of all forms of Africanist expression must be recognized, including its more superficial and commodified manifestations. As individuals living in a market culture, he asserts we cannot afford to denounce the marketing of Africa. West explains, "At least [commodified Africa] is available and people have to, in some sense, acknowledge and come to terms with Africa...
...spokesman for the Pan-Africanist Congress in Johannesburg reacted differently, calling the crime an "abominable terrorist act." Cape Town's A.N.C. director dissociated his organization from the murder, and his group's national executive moved to rein in its own members' use of racist rhetoric and inflammatory slogans. As if to underscore the emptiness of such pledges, gunmen firing assault rifles on Friday wounded eight people -- whites and mixed-race -- traveling by luxury-bus from Cape Town to Johannesburg...