Word: african
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with my experience of the Center. I have heard every kind of view expressed in its seminars, in its miscellaneous gatherings, and around the lunch table. In particular I have myself under the general auspices of the Center published one small book and a number of articles dealing with African affairs, on none of which have I ever had the faintest suggestion that they should reflect or embody and particular point of view...
...addition I have for some years been in charge of an African lunch group meeting regularly at he Center, embracing graduate students, faculty, and various visitors, at which a considerable number of persons. African and non-African, have spoken. They represented every kind of view that I could lay hands on, and no authority in the Center either knew that particular individuals had been invited, suggested that others should be asked, or commented critically on those who came...
...same project also spawned the publication of a critical, hardly imperialist, book written by an African, the late George S. Mwase's Strike a Blow and Die: A Narrative of Race Relations in Colonial Africa (1967). The Center has indulged, supported, even cossetted this kind of scholarly inquiry: indeed, if Hyland wants to blow his mind, he is welcome to read the galley proofs of a 1500-page book, soon to be on the radicalized newsstands, called Power and Protest in Black Africa. It follows the course of anti-colonial and anti-neo-colonial agitation in Africa from...
...encouraged immigration from Europe at the rate of 50,000 a year to keep white South Africa from being totally submerged by blacks. The right-wingers complain, however, that the newcomers, mostly Southern European Catholics, will soon outnumber the Dutch-descended, Afrikaans-speaking Calvinists, who have increasingly dominated South African politics since the 1930s. In any event, Vorster's immigration effort seems doomed. Current projections indicate that by the year 2000, there will be 70 nonwhites to every white in South Africa. Even today, white South Africans total only 3,600,000, compared with 13 million blacks...
...DANJU GIG by Carolyn Weston. 195 pages. Random House. $4.95. A smart-mouthed Jewish agent and a black movie star play at espionage in a small West African dictatorship. Sample prose: "Again he belched...