Word: african
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Conga drums now resound from the common room of Bertram Hall every Tuesday and Thursday night when 30 Cliflies gather to dance-African with an Afro-American twist...
Drawing from her experiences last summer with the Black Light Explosion Company in San Francisco, she teaches the girls movements which she said "are probably quite similar to authentic African dances." She added that, "Nothing has been traced, but the drum rhythms certainly are authentic...
Tribalism is a distasteful word to educated Africans. It suggests that atavistic fears play a disproportionate role in the politics of new African nations. Distasteful or not, tribalism is a key to many African problems-a point that was made all too emphatically in Kenya last week. President Jomo Kenyatta, who with his fellow Kikuyu has ruled the country since independence in 1963, threw Opposition Leader Oginga Odinga in prison and banned his Luo-dominated party...
Kikuyu and Luo, first and second largest of Kenya's 46 main tribes, have long controlled the country's politics. Initially, neither Kenyatta's Kenya African...
...members present agreed that the goal of OBU was to "coordinate the interdisciplinary skills toward the building of a black nation for all African people." according to Philip N, Lee. a third year law student and spokesman for the group...