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...Wamba-Dia Wamba, professor at the University of Dares Salaam in Tanzania and former visiting scholar at Harvard, was the guest speaker of last night's talk entitled "The Crisis of Nation Building in Africa." The talk, sponsored by the African Students Association, is one of several events designed to inform the Harvard community about the African continent...
Since Africa is a mosaic country with a fairly young population, it "relates to the rest of the world in a very specific way," said Wamba. "Very few countries [in Africa] have a population greater than New York City," he said...
...number of people, who addressed each other as "comrade," had spent wrangling over the politics of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola. There was an urgency to the rhetoric; the angriest and least tolerant speeches got the most applause, and despite the appeal by moderator Ernest Wamba, lecturer on African and Afro-American Studies at Brandeis, for people to "try hard to analyze rather than recite," those who suggested that the MPLA was being manipulated by the Soviet Union were abused and ignored...
Ernest D. Wamba, lecturer on Afro-American Studies, was listed by the group as a sponsor of the demonstration, but he said yesterday that he had not agreed to be a sponsor, although he said that he is concerned about political repression in Argentina...
...Wamba massacre brought to nearly 200 the total of whites killed since the Belgian-American para drop on Stanleyville last November, and left at least 90 more whites still in rebel hands. The Wamba rescue brought to an end one major phase of mercenary activity, and with it came bad news. South African Mercenary Commander Michael Hoare flew back to Leopoldville to inform Congolese Premier Moise Tshombe that he did not plan to renew his six-month contract. With starchy, spit-and-polish "Mad Mike" threatening to issue his last harrumph, other battle-hardened officers in Tshombe's dwindling...