Word: african
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question of relevance--how to capture the essence of one's country in a way meaningful to both the artist and his society--haunts South African writers today, Gordimer says. Writers who duck the visceral issue of apartheid find their work irrelevant to their society and in some larger sense to themselves. They are cut off from society, bereft...
Juffure never existed says Handlin. Especially the references to the way those Africans behaved: all available evidence proves Africans had no concept of Africa, nor did they regard all Africans as brothers. Also, according to Handlin, Haley's Kunta Kinte is not a man of the 18th-century West African coast, but a 20th-century civil rights activist...
...evidence exists that things happened one way, there are gaps in history where things may have occurred differently. Only where there is evidence is there history, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian tells us. Thus it follows that if there is no evidence, there is no history. How many African tribes kept records at City Hall? Or better yet, how many American Indians kept council meeting notes? Does this mean that black and native Americans have no history? Is that why schoolchildren are repeatedly told Columbus discovered America when native Americans were here first...
...Soni, a black South African with a year-long special scholarship at Harvard, the idea of a black university in his country free of government controls makes his "blood and adrenalin flow...
Soni, as a journalist in Durban, holds an M.A.from the University of Durban Westfall, one of six black universities controlled by the South African government...