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Jackson Advocate
Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi
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BBC's John J. Akar addresses Hampton Institute on Russia's scholarships to West Africans, limited communist influence in Africa, criticism of African leaders, and interest in Africa's minerals, warning America.
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Hampton, Va. Feb. 14 - A representative of the British Broadcasting Corporation told a Hampton Institute audience recently that Russia is interested in Africa and has offered scholarships to West Africans in West Germany, but that Africa "is the only continent... (Continued on Page Two)
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in the world where Communism has, so far had almost no influence.
The speaker was John J. Akar, African commentator for the BBC who discussed "The New Africa" in an address here.
In the talk, Akar criticized native African leaders for placing more emphasis upon construction of government and the exercising of political powers than upon the preparation of their people for leadership and economic participation.
African conservation factors in government (European Colonialism.)
Akar said Russia is interested in Africa because of its rare mineral wealth, gold, diamonds, uranium, oil. He warned that America should not doctrine and friendship.
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Africa
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Feb. 14
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A representative of the British Broadcasting Corporation, John J. Akar, African commentator for the BBC, told a Hampton Institute audience that Russia is interested in Africa and has offered scholarships to West Africans in West Germany, but that Africa is the only continent where Communism has so far had almost no influence. In his address on 'The New Africa', Akar criticized native African leaders for placing more emphasis upon construction of government and the exercising of political powers than upon the preparation of their people for leadership and economic participation. African conservation factors in government (European Colonialism.) Akar said Russia is interested in Africa because of its rare mineral wealth, gold, diamonds, uranium, oil. He warned that America should not doctrine and friendship.