Both as a concept and a social movement, African nationalism contains three major elements: 1) a pervasive antagonism to alien domination, particularly that of the European powers; 2) a quest by Africans for “moral status”—first in their homelands and then …
What is the privileged French minority defending in Algeria? A past of ease and comfort that certain of them already regard with remorse. Some try to deny what is happening and desperately reject this image of an Algerian people suddenly …
An Interview with Chief Luthuli, Head of the National Congress In 1954 George Houser, then visiting South Africa, met Chief Albert J. Luthuli, present head of the African National Congress and, as such, an authoritative spokesman for large numbers of …
When the Mau Mau rebellion broke out in Kenya in the fall of 1952, the American press was quick to interpret it as a “terroristic” uprising by a people barely a few generations away from “savagery.” It was said that …
French public opinion has been deeply stirred by the increasingly detailed news of widespread repression in Algeria. Temoignage Chretien published in its January 6th issue an appeal of 700 political internees held in the camp of Djorf near M’Sila. This …
Jean Cocteau tells the story of a young governess in a school in pre-revolutionary Russia, who found the task of disciplining her turbulent pupils beyond her powers. She therefore hit upon the expedient of persuading her pupils to draw up …
“Nero, too, was a product of his epoch. Yet after he perished his statues were smashed and his name was scraped off everything. The vengeance of history is more terrible than the vengeance of the most powerful General Secretary. I …
THE NORTH AFRICAN peoples have a common destiny. In Tunisia, after the arrest of the Chenik government came oppression, with all its violence. After the assassination of my friends Ferhat Hached and Hedi Chaker, there was virtually war. In Morocco, …
No matter how one examines the Algerian problem it has clearly become so serious that, asp in the case of Vietnam, a political solution must now take precedence over any other. There is no longer any need to prove the …
Not only are the people of Algeria underemployed and undernourished, but they are frustrated in almost every attempt to escape as individuals from the dismal fate of idleness. Like the conquered Poles in Hitler’s Germanic Empire, the Mohammedans of Algeria …
Casting an indulgent eye on the merry-making of Flemish peasants, Breughel found it brutish, vulgar, lusty, gluttonous, bibulous and, possibly, dulling. Yet, nothing in his canvases suggests the suspicion that the feudal lords might have devised the popular culture of …
No sooner had the upheavals in Asia that followed upon the Second World War begun to subside a little than new and still more elemental social forces made themselves felt in the world. Africa, oldest of the continents in terms …
When I was in Africa in 1954, I met a white South African business man who was spending a few days in Port Gentil looking after his timber interests. He was a man of realistic and conservative opinion; his attitude …
THE PATTERN OF WORLD CONFLICT. By G. L. Arnold, New York: Dial Press, 250 pp., $4.00. The series of wars and revolutions that mark twentieth century history show no sign of having exhausted themselves. No sooner do the power blocs …
The French government insists that Algeria is part of France. History shows that Algeria never was French and that the Algerian nation is an historic fact whose existence has been either concealed or disfigured. Before its conquest Algeria was a …
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