Word: african
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...AFRICAN WILDCATTING will be started by Gulf Oil. Gulf has made deal with the Spanish government to spend $7,750,000 seeking oil in Spanish Guinea in the next six years...
...crowded Winthrop House forum that lasted into the early morning hours, seven young North African leaders--of student, labor and "scouting" movements in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco--heard their spokesman, Ait Chaalal, President of the General Union of Algerian Moslem Students, put forth the cause of Algerian freedom and independence from France...
Though the South African government shrugged off the U.N. action as one more example of a nation the world misunderstood, the English-language Rand Daily Mail gloomily noted that "on each occasion the number of countries supporting the resolution gradually increases," and wondered how long the government "can go on implementing a racial policy that is arousing more and more opposition throughout the civilized world...
...East African kingdom of Buganda, a province of the British protectorate of Uganda, the night gleamed with bonfires. In the flickering light, huge gourds stood in rows, ready to be filled with the banana beer that was brewing in hollowed-out logs. Musicians gave an additional twist to the cow sinews binding their drums, bringing them up to concert pitch. Shapely dancing girls added extra layers of cloth to the bustles that accentuate their sinuous movements. Throughout the green and rolling land last week, 1,500,000 Buganda tribesmen were getting ready to celebrate the 35th birthday of their Kabaka...
...eighth time in as many years, the General Assembly of the U.N. last week passed a resolution condemning South Africa's official policy of apartheid, the segregation of whites and nonwhites. The vote this time was an overwhelming 62-3 (with seven abstentions), the only dissenters being three African colonial powers, Britain, France and Portugal. The South African delegation itself boycottedl both the debate and the vote...