Word: african
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Europe's response is largely defensive. The British protest that they are already pulling their weight helping Asian and African members of the Commonwealth. Paris points to last year's $100 million to the French Community's African members. But, bit by bit, Washington's new approach is beginning to have its effect. Under U.S. pressure, the European countries and Japan have agreed to join with the U.S. in setting up the new $1 billion International Development Association (TIME, Oct. 12). And last week, after asking his countrymen "whether we have the right to enjoy...
...White Highlands are "white" because since 1939 only Kenya's 60,000 Europeans have been allowed to lease farms there-a state of affairs that has constituted a perennial political and psychological affront to the colony's 6,000,000 Africans. The new plan might ease the affront, but even its proponents did not argue that it would admit more than a sprinkling of non-Europeans into the Highlands. As the plan now stands, an African farmer who wanted to move into the Highlands would first have to get financing, then find a European farmer who was willing...
...plan pleased no one. Said Group Captain Leslie Briggs, hard-shell leader of the far-right, pure-white United Party: "This is dishonest and dangerous-we would have no right to stop a convicted Mau Mau gangster farming next door to us." With equal vehemence, African Nationalist Leader Tom Mboya denounced the proposals as falling far short of the sweeping redistribution of White Highlands acreage demanded by Africans. Even members of the moderate New Kenya Party, led by Michael Blundell, Kenya's most progressive white politician, raised the outcry that the plan was discriminatory against Europeans; it was unfair...
...lack the sharp class identity retained by students of colonial and underdeveloped areas. College students in the United States no not rest as far above the general population in ability to decide political issues from an "enlightened" point of view as their foreign counterparts. While many Latin American and African student unions are important political factors in their own countries, NSA is only one of a number of "pressure groups," drawing its strength from the prestige of the individual student governments in the Association...
...wide base of the ISC deeply affected policy within NSA. A great number of Latin American, African and Middle Eastern student associations joined ISC, bringing with them their concern for politics. Suddenly, student issues were no longer travel, hostles and book stores, but prisons, persecution and Peron...