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...American is not long in Africa." says TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast, "before he is taken aside and asked, 'Well, how long do you think this can last?' " After two years of reporting the ever-changing African story (including such major pieces as the cover story on Guinea's Sekou Toure), Prendergast finds that the question is in itself a kind of answer - a tacit admission by Africa's whites that they can resist and delay but cannot stop the move for increasing African rule. Africa has become a land of two timetables: the impatient black says...
...headlines. But in Ghana a kind of opposition at least still does exist. Wily President William V. S. Tubman of Liberia chomps on cigars, quotes the Bible and has no opposition at all. Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is an absolute monarch. Cold-eyed, shrewd President Sekou Toure of Guinea, Africa's youngest nation, is Marxist-trained, favors Marxist-length speeches (very long), runs his country through a single Marxist-style party...
Cold-War Indifference. Guinea aside, the question of Communist influence does not-at least as yet-seriously arise. Though the present African leaders are almost all Western-educated and Western-minded, they are highly indifferent to the struggle between East and West. They seem to be much too possessive about their new position to ally themselves with other powers, even with one another...
...South, last week underwent the political equivalent of a cross burning. A delegation of 32 racists from around the state descended upon his office to demand his answers to a prepared list of loaded questions. Sample: "Did it ever occur to you that you are being used as a guinea pig by the Communist-Jewish integrators to sample the political sentiment of the South for a most distasteful candidate, John Kennedy?" Patterson, caught in a web he had helped spin, retorted a bit helplessly. "Kennedy is a friend," he said, "and so far as I know...
Last week Leo Arkfeld was making some last flights to each of the outlying missions, getting set to go to Rome and then go home on leave. But he plans to return to New Guinea, where there is still "something to do"-help prepare the natives for independence. Mission success notwithstanding, most of New Guinea's tribes are still warlike, and some even practice cannibalism. In 1957 the government caught four young cannibals after their tribe had defeated another (with axes and knives made of human bones) and feasted on the losers. Police handed the cannibals over...