First ColumnAuthor(s): NTUSource: Africa Today, Vol. 12, No. 9 (Nov., 1965), p. 2Published by: Indiana University PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4184668 .

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first column.. WHAT CAN ONE CONCLUDE from the most recent US statement of policy on South Africa delivered at the UN? Our representative stood four-square behind doing nothing that hadn't already been done. The speech was so vaccuous that no paper we saw carried it. It was as if there were no South African- Rhodesian alli-ance, no danger of interracial war in southern Africa, no South West Africa problem, no close relationship between the American and South African business communities. Nothing unusual, in fact, except this unfortu- nate affair about apartheid. Those well-informed and enlightened political officers in the State Department's Africa Bureau are being replaced, it seems, by creative writers specializing in fairy tales.

It is thus somewhat of a shock to return to reality and look around us at the growing movement specifically concerned with freedom in southern Africa.

SNCC, for example, is turning its attention from the South to Africa. SNCC leader Robert Pariss is presently touring the continent as a member of the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies. The Institute itself is engaged in a study designed to throw light on the coming revolution in south- ern Africa. Martin Luther King is another making more time available to the liberation struggle (he is to address an ACOA-sponsored rally on Human Rights next month). The conscience of American youths, in the body of Students for a Democratic Society, is giving some, though not concentrated attention to South Africa. Their very successful demonstration at Chase Manhattan Plaza in New York last spring needs to be followed up by more action against Ameri- can banks and corporations which draw profit from apartheid.

No less hopeful is the emergence of a few Congressional figures with interest in the area. By accepting an invitation from the anti-apartheid National Union of South African Students to speak before them, Robert Kennedy has shown where he stands. In the House, men such as Donald Frazer (Minn.), Jonathan Bingham (NY), Charles Diggs (Mich.), and Benjamin Rosenthal (NY) are rising to the defense of free Africa.

Certain church and trade union figures are also becoming identified with the struggle, though the rank and file, for the most part, is not. Methodist, Episcopalean, Presbyterian and United Church of Christ mission boards and national bureau leaders have been most active. Among trade unions, the UAW is the one outstanding International whose officers are concerned with southern Africa.

Among unaffiliated individuals, we look with the greatest hope on returned Peace Corps volunteers as a source of community concern on southern Africa. Many, having made an emotional pact with Black Africa, buzz like angry bees when forced to return to lives of quiet desperation in this Great Society.

Curiously enough, the one segment of our society which has produced little active concern with Africa is the Negro community. To be sure, individual Negroes have joined the struggle; but as weighty a group as the African Metho- dist Episcopal Church, which has many missions in southern Africa, has not contributed significantly to the struggle against racism.

Though Washington need not yet fear a tidal wave of indignation about its policy, the movement is rapidly expanding and will before long, we predict, become only slightly less popular a crusade than those for civil rights and against the Viet Nam war.

NTU

The General Foods Corporation of White Plains, NY, has asked us to note that it has neither plants nor subsidiaries in South Africa as our March 1964 issue alleged. The company had received a number of complaints about the alleged link with apartheid. General Food's involvement is limited to certain licensing agreements with South African firms. We apologize for the error whose source was the usually-reliable New York Stock Exchange.

November 1965-Vol. Xii, No. 9

Edkitor: Collin Gonze Assistant Editor: Catharine Raymond Contributivg Editors: Robert Browne, Mary Benson, Mark Cohen, Stanley Diamond, Elizabeth Landis, Sheldon Weeks, Peter Weiss.

Eduardo Mondlane and the Mozambique Struggle . 4

Ronald II. Chilcote

Behind the Smith Curtain .. 8 Nathan Al. Shanmuyarira

Three West African Novelists ... 10 Mtartin Tucker

What Now in Burundi? 15 Warren WVeinstein

BOOKS Another Look at Du Bois .. 15

Martin Legassick

White supermen comne and white su- permana go, but Tarzan goes on for- ever. Our cover is from a story in a Tarzan conmic book entitled "Tarzan and the Spotted Death," copyright by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. (Dell Publishing). The drawing on p. 9 is by Dave Matheny, and first appeared in The Student.

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