Word: politician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instigator was Kenya's canny Politician Tom Mboya, 28, currently embroiled in a hot fight to expand his native party (see FOREIGN NEWS). When Mboya swept through the U.S. on a speaking tour last spring, he roused support for a stirring project: giving able young Kenyans a crack at higher education. The Royal Technical College of East Africa in Nairobi grants only subuniversity diplomas. Kenyans with a yen for more than a technical degree must go to Uganda's Makerere College, an affiliate of the University of London, or somehow find their way overseas...
...have been expected, our undistinguished Senator Dodd has uttered another of his profound political oratories. The Geneva talks have failed; there appears to be no summit conference in sight; and this politician wants to prevent the one remaining possibility that may in some way alleviate the heat of the cold war. It is unfortunate that this mediocre man does not realize that he may be instigating violence during the Khrushchev visit...
...wake of all the mass arrests of African nationalists, the interracial bench has little impact even as a token of intention. In South Africa, where the police are strong and the blacks still leaderless, the system may last for years to come. Elsewhere, the chief pastime of the African politician is to draw up timetables...
Uganda, Tanganyika and Sierra Leone are all pressing for time commitments. Back in 1957 a Leopoldville politician kept shouting in my ear over the din of a cafe orchestra: "What we want is justice-the communaute Belgo-Congolaise." Now, only 19 months after the Congo's first municipal elections, the demand is for a wildly impractical schedule calling for territorial elections in December 1959, provincial elections in March 1960, and general elections and a whole parliamentary government by the following June. The dates whiz by in a blur...
...governments move into the cool, white villas the colonial officials left behind, the continent is clearly slated for a series of strongman governments. No more pointed advice exists for the African politician than the pseudo-Biblical com mandment inscribed at the bottom of Kwame Nkrumah's statue, which stands outside the Ghana Parliament. "Seek ye first the political kingdom," it says, "and all other things shall be added unto...