Word: african
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clear that De Gaulle detested the first alternative, considered the second impractical. His own preference, he made plain, was the third alternative-self-government of a type similar to that now operating in the twelve nations of France's new African Community. But even this would not come until the fighting was over: Algerians, proclaimed De Gaulle, would make their decision in elections to be held "at the latest four years after the actual restoration of peace; that is to say, once a situation has been established in which not more than 200 people a year lose their lives...
Last week a fiery-eyed grocer's son stood among 2,000 cheering Moroccans in a Casablanca movie house to announce the formation of a new political party, the National Union of Popular Forces. It was the most important political development in Morocco since the North African kingdom got its independence 3½ years ago, and it made its leader, 39-year-old Mehdi ben Barka, the most important man in Morocco next to King Mohammed V and the monarchy's unquestioned challenger...
Into the halls of U.S. higher education last week marched an exotic vanguard: 81 African students, including 78 Kenyans -the largest group ever to arrive from the British colony that most Americans know vaguely as the land of the Mau Mau. What the Kenyans knew about the U.S. was more specific: scholarships totaling some $100,000 were sending them to 52 colleges and universities, from Howard to Hawaii. The event was not one to make British colonial officials cheer...
Times. His version: 451 native Kenyans are pursuing higher education this year on government scholarships-79 at the Royal Technical College. 325 at Makerere College, 45 in Britain, two in Canada. Countered Tom Mboya: the statistics, in a land with an African population of 6,000,000, "are an indictment of British attitudes toward African education...
There, in the library he discovered Roger Fry's Vision and Design, with its contention that there was more power and freedom of form in the sculpture of African savages than in most "civilized" art. The idea struck Moore's imagination as sharply as a chisel striking stone. After two years at Leeds, he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London and discovered the primitive sculpture in the British Museum. "I was in a daze of excitement. I would literally float home on the top of an open-deck...