Britannica Book of the Year 1970 (Events of 1969)

Dettagli prodotto :

• EDITORE: Encyclopaedia Britannica
• AUTORE: AA.vv.
• ANNO DI PUBBLICAZIONE: 1970

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Continuing a series of major feature articles by world figures, the 1970 Britannica Book of the Year focuses on Africa in "The Emergence of Kenya" by President Jomo Kenyatta.

With the general easing of tensions between East and West and a lull in the cold war, attention is increasingly centered on the growing problems of the Third World. The emerging nations of Africa and Asia especially constitute a political force that must be dealt with as a major influence in the shaping of future world events.

Events of the past few months on the troubled continent of Africa lend even more significance to the Kenyatta article than the editors had anticipated when the article was commissioned. It had originally been planned as an addition to the series in which the Book of the Year has brought readers articles on England and Europe by Prime Minister Harold Wilson, on Japan and Asia by Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida, on Latin America by President Rómulo Betancourt of Venezuela, and on the United States by President Lyndon Johnson.

This year the emphasis was to be on Africa.

The editors chose for that assignment the out-standing black leader of Africa's former colonies. Jomo Kenyatta has lived through and been a powerful force for change in the tide that has brought independence to new nations of Africa. He has made the transition from a dedicated revolutionary to a dedicated and responsible leader of a stable government.
His article forthrightly views the problems faced by the emerging nations, the dangers from within and without. In addition, the African leader looks at the economic, political, social and racial problems that divide an Africa in which whites control some nations and blacks control others with distrust and fear creating barriers between them.

In addition to Africa, the 1970 Book of the Year brings readers 14 shorter features, each one of which provides insight into a contemporary topic.

Dr. Ota Sik, former deputy prime minister of Czechoslovakia under the deposed Alexander Dubcek, writes about the economic reforms he planned for his country.