The African National Congress

.South-African politician, celebrates for his fight against apartheid. From its original name Rolihlahla Mandela, it was born on July 18, 1918 in Mvezo, in Transkei, in the current province of Cape-Eastern, in South Africa. It results from a family of chiefs of village. It is Pasteur who will give him the Western first name of Nelson, that he preserved since. It is the first of its family to follow a schooling. It follows studies to the university of Strong Hare, where it meets Oliver Tambo and

Botha Pourtant, En 1911, l'Afrique du Sud compte 4 millions de noirs, 1,3 million de blancs, 525 000 métis et 150 000 indiens 1923 le congrès national africain (ANC), est alors crée ; c’est la première organisation à représenter au niveau national les Noirs en prenant le relais des divers groupes et mouvements ethniques ou régionaux alors que le Parti National s’ancre définitivement dans la sphère politique sud africaine Le climat racial devient de plus en plus délétère mais son rebondissement au

Biographie [modifier] Suret-Canale est né de Victor Suret-Canale (1883-1958), un graveur sorti de l'École Nationale des Arts Décoratifs et de Thérèse Suret-Canale, peintre, initiée tout d'abord en Allemagne puis à l'Académie Julian à Paris. Brillant élève au lycée il obtient une bourse de la Ligue Maritime et Coloniale pour visiter les colonies françaises du Dahomey (Bénin) en 1938 et de l'Indochine en 1939. Revenu en France il continue ses études de géographie, est emprisonné pour activité antiallemande

born on July 18 1918.He is the first black president in South Africa. When he was seven years old, two old friends of his father invited his mother to enroll him in school because he was very smart. Buti's English teacher gave him an English name: Nelson. This name was given to him as a result to erase his African culture. We saw already the character of the future leader because he didn't agree with this. He was admitted at Fort Hare, a college for African scholars. In this school

Wright, the grandson of former slaves, was born on the Rucker plantation in Roxie, Mississippi, in Franklin County, just outside of Natchez. His family soon moved to Memphis, Tennessee. While in Memphis, his father Nathaniel, a former sharecropper, abandoned the family because of a hard time finding a job. His mother, a schoolteacher, had to support herself and her children. In 1914 Ella Wright became ill, and the two brothers were sent to Settlement House, a Methodist orphanage. The mother then

Africa finally came to an end as the official ideology and legal system of the country in 1994. At the time, the arrival to the power of the black president, Nelson Mandela, was the guarantee of a national process of reconciliation, reconstruction and development, excluding racism and social segregation. The new democratic country considered itself then, as a “rainbow nation” where everyone would live together in peace and harmony. Nevertheless, questions as regard the legitimacy of this statement can

néerlandais, signifiant « africain » ). L'apartheid est un terme qui désigne initialement une politique de lois de séparation raciale, appliquées en Afrique du Sud dans la deuxième moitié du 20e siècle et qui avaient notamment instituées au niveau national la discrimination raciale entre blancs, noirs, métis et indiens sur des critères ethniques et créé des bantoustans ( Les bantoustans étaient les régions créées durant la période d'apartheid, réservées aux populations noires et qui jouissaient à des

Ku Klu Klan : The name "Ku Klux Klan" began to be used by several independent groups. Beginning in the 1950s, for instance, individual Klan groups in Birmingham, Alabama began to resist social change and blacks' improving their lives by bombing houses in transitional neighborhoods. There were so many bombings in Birmingham of blacks' homes by Klan groups in the 1950s that the city's nickname was "Bombingham".[11] During the tenure of Bull Connor as police commissioner in the city, Klan groups were

The Mahatma and the Poet – Letters and debates between Gandhi and Tagore 1915-1941 -compiled and edited by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya Introduction This book puts together letters exchanged by Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore along with some essays which they wrote debating major national issues. These letters preserved in the archives of Vishva-Bharati, the University founded by Tagore, are of great historical interest. Of more than historical interest is the debate between Gandhi and

Portrait of the USA Executive Editor— George Clack Managing Editor— Rosalie Targonski Editor— Dennis Drabelle Designer— Barbara Long Web Art Director— Min-Chih Yao Photo Research— Maggie Johnson Sliker Internet Editor— Suzanne Dawkins Contributing Editors— Maura Christopher, Anne Cusack, Michael Cusack, Fredric A. Emmert, David Goddy, Holly Hughes, Norman Lunger, John Nickerson, Bruce Oatman, Shelley Orenstein, Richard Pawelek, Ira Peck, Jonathan Rose