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Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
dx30-85

AFRICA

(See also Racial Prejudice; individual countries by name)

(Note centered headings below: Jehovah’s Witnesses; Quotations)

animals: g76 7/8 20-22; g71 12/22 25-26; g66 1/8 17-20

catching wild: g75 8/22 7-9

elephant: g83 5/22 3-5; g77 3/22 31; g77 7/8 20-23; g75 11/8 30

endangered species: g78 1/8 30

gorilla: g83 5/22 8

rhinoceros: g83 5/22 5-7; g80 2/8 30

wildebeest: g79 1/22 24-26

arts:

Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture: g77 9/22 12-15

Bushman art: g78 7/8 11-15

wood carving: g67 1/8 18-20

Barbary: g43 1/20 8

Bible:

number of languages in which translated: g80 5/8 29

breast-feeding to prevent pregnancy: g80 6/22 29

cable to connect Africa, Asia, Europe: g84 7/8 31

Carthage (ancient): g59 8/8 23-24

children: g72 7/8 24-26; g71 10/22 8; w70 732-735

Christendom’s religions: g75 3/8 15; w74 677-679; g74 11/22 5; w73 151-153; g72 3/8 8-10; is 177; g67 12/22 15; g65 1/22 30; g65 6/22 21; g65 12/22 13-16; g64 5/22 10-11; g64 8/22 30; g63 1/8 10-11

All-Africa Conference of Churches: w74 677-679

Catholic Church: g44 12/20 19-21; g35 10/23 53

Church of Christ admits polygamists as members: g78 2/8 29

converted people by force: w75 254

failure: w82 6/1 15; g77 1/22 7

favor ancestor worship: g85 7/22 22-23

pope’s visit to: w80 7/15 10

spread revolution: g77 2/22 30

compared with pagan America: w56 272

customs resembling those of Bible: g59 12/22 20

deserts:

Kalahari Desert: g85 8/22 19-21

Namib Desert: g82 11/22 24-25

Sahara Desert: g75 7/22 29

diamonds: g74 7/22 25-26

discussion: g80 7/8 17-23; g79 5/8 20-26; g77 1/22 5-8; g64 6/8 16-19; g63 1/8 8-11; g62 6/8 10-11; g57 2/22 9-11; g43 1/20 3-8; g43 2/3 15-16; g43 9/1 24; g40 10/2 26; g33 1/18 227-234; g33 2/1 263-271; g33 2/15 303-309; g33 3/1 333-341; g32 1/6 198-199

diseases:

cholera: w74 132

infertility caused by gonorrhea: g77 1/8 30

malaria: g77 3/22 29

Marburg virus: g76 12/22 30

onchocerciasis (river blindness): g82 7/22 30; g80 7/22 27-28

plague: g78 7/22 30

rabies: g77 12/8 30-31

sexually transmitted disease among children: g82 11/22 29

sleeping sickness: g77 12/8 31

drought: g83 9/8 29; g83 10/8 29-30; g74 7/22 4, 6; g74 10/8 3, 5-6

man-made: w85 10/15 21

drums: g71 7/8 23

earthquake: g64 6/22 29

economics: g85 11/8 29; g74 6/22 24-25; g68 8/22 17-19; g65 7/22 30

credit buying: g80 7/8 19-20

military drain: w85 11/15 10

poverty: g77 12/22 29; w75 67-68

education:

bush schools: g60 6/22 24-26

development: g78 2/22 8-11

schools: g85 9/22 8-10; g65 6/22 21; g64 6/8 19; g63 8/8 21-22

failure to unite: g74 6/22 23-24, 26

internal strife: g74 6/22 23-24; g69 1/22 6; g64 3/22 29

family life: g80 7/8 18-19

famine: w85 10/15 21; g85 5/22 5-7; g83 5/22 30; g75 2/22 10-11; w74 196; g74 3/8 5-8; g74 7/22 6; g74 9/8 30

effects: g85 5/22 5

Ethiopia: g85 3/8 29

military expenditures contribute to: w85 11/15 10

number having less than a survival diet: g85 5/22 3

number starving: g85 5/22 3

farming:

new yoke to enable one ox to do the work of two: g83 11/8 30

tobacco crops increasing: g82 4/8 30

female circumcision: g85 6/22 24-27; g85 10/22 28

fishing: g72 6/8 25-26; g69 3/8 24-26

food: g74 6/22 29; g69 3/8 26; g68 3/8 14-16; g67 6/8 25; g66 6/22 8-11; g64 6/8 17-18; g62 12/8 20-21

kola nuts: g69 12/22 17-19

malnutrition: g68 3/8 12-16; g66 6/22 8

production: g78 12/22 29

shortages: w85 11/15 10; g85 5/22 3; g85 11/8 29; w83 4/15 7; w83 8/15 11; g83 5/22 30; g83 10/8 29-30

funerals: g60 8/22 21-23; g48 5/8 12-14

customs: g84 5/8 22-24

professional mourners: g79 8/8 30

wakes: us 51

game parks: g79 1/22 23-26; g77 4/8 29-30

government:

ancient kingdoms: g78 3/8 29

black rule: w81 5/15 30

chiefs: g69 6/8 21-23

colonialism: w74 677; g74 6/22 25-26

independence: g64 1/22 29; g61 8/22 13-15

last U.S. base closed: g67 8/8 29

nationalism: g79 5/8 22; yb77 261; w65 17-18; yb65 11-12, 28; g63 7/8 29

number of new nations: w65 8; yb65 11-12; g64 5/22 29

village rule: g64 6/8 17; w54 524-525

Great Rift Valley: g79 4/8 13-16

harmattan: g78 10/8 27-28

“hidden Switzerland”: g76 2/22 20-23

history: g74 12/22 18; g59 8/8 23-24

period called the Golden Age: g79 5/8 21

hospitality: g80 7/8 18-19; g78 5/22 9-12

houses made of banco (clay and straw): g77 7/22 30

illiteracy: g83 1/8 29-30; g64 6/8 19; g63 8/8 21-22; g61 7/22 21-22

industrial development: g77 1/22 6-7

steel making in ancient times: g78 12/8 29

ingenuities: g60 1/22 13-15

ivory: g75 11/8 30

languages: g78 6/8 31; g75 2/22 26; g73 1/22 25-26; g73 8/22 22-23; g64 5/22 29

marriage: w79 3/15 9-10; w73 151-155; w71 124-125; w71 158; g71 10/22 7-8; g70 6/22 12-15; g69 12/22 18; g65 3/8 31; g65 6/22 20; g64 6/8 17; g63 1/8 9-10; g63 8/8 23; g62 2/22 31; w60 714-715; g60 1/8 13-16; w57 318; w56 565, 570; g52 8/22 13-15; g39 5/17 22

common-law: g80 7/22 26

materialism: g80 7/8 19-20; g79 5/8 22

mathematics: g75 5/22 17-19

military expenses: w85 11/15 10; g65 4/8 29

music: g71 3/22 11

names: g72 5/8 31; g72 7/8 24-26

Organization of African Unity (OAU): g74 6/22 23-26

Pan-African Conference: g58 9/22 21-24

people: g65 7/22 13-16; g64 6/8 16-19; g63 8/8 20-21; g60 1/22 13-15; w56 6-7; g56 1/8 17-19; w54 349-350; g50 6/22 9-11; g33 1/18 227-229

Bushmen: g85 8/22 18-21; g78 7/8 11-15

lake dwellers: g71 1/22 24-26

polygamy: w80 8/1 6; w75 200; g75 12/8 13-17

view of Anglican Church of Central Africa: w77 207

population:

fertility rate: g82 8/8 30

increase: g78 5/22 31

migration to cities: g85 5/22 6

percentage under 16 years of age: g80 7/8 19; g79 5/8 23

problems regarding food, water, and shelter: g83 1/22 16

racial problems: w70 259-260; w64 261; g64 7/22 14; g60 1/22 17-20; g58 11/22 19; g57 2/22 10-11; g56 9/22 21-24; w53 233; g53 8/22 9-11; g53 10/8 5-8; g49 5/22 13-15; g48 11/8 21-24; g47 12/8 3-8; g36 4/22 471; g33 2/15 307-309

refugees: g84 11/8 29; g83 1/22 16; g83 10/22 7-10; g74 6/22 24

religion: g84 1/8 3-4

ancestor worship: g85 7/22 22-25; w83 2/1 27-28; g69 6/8 22-23; g67 12/22 12-15

animism: yb73 141-142

black independent churches: g81 1/22 12-15

Cherubim and Seraphim sect: g71 9/8 16-18

false “Watchtower movements”: yb76 73-74, 81, 94-97

fetish bought by Detroit Institute of Arts: g76 12/22 30

number of sects in: w83 9/15 3

serpent worship: g68 1/22 19

sex worship: g62 11/8 6

rivers:

Niger River: g81 2/22 21-23

Nile River: g83 8/8 25-27

safari to Kenya’s Masai Mara Game Reserve: g79 1/22 23-26

shortage of firewood: g77 5/22 30

slaves furnished for sugarcane growing: g82 11/22 3-7

spiritism:

“country medicine”: us 54-57

destroying objects related to: us 41-42, 44-47

discussion: us 3-62

dreams: us 57-58

fetishism: yb81 176-177

medicine men: us 4-7, 24-25, 27-28

superstitions: w82 9/1 3-7; us 3-7, 37; g74 1/22 26; g72 6/8 26; g71 9/8 18; g70 5/8 16-17; w69 643-647; g69 3/8 26; g69 11/22 14-15; g69 12/22 18-19

Swaziland:

death of King Sobhuza II: g82 12/8 30

telephone service: g83 8/22 30

Timbuktu (Tombouctou): g79 5/8 21

travel: g72 1/8 21-24

Tazara railway: g76 10/8 24-26

transportation routes: g42 5/27 29

tribalism: g79 5/8 22; g77 1/22 6; g64 3/8 29-30; g64 3/22 29; g64 6/8 16-18; g64 9/22 30; g63 1/8 8-11

tunnel proposed to link Europe with: g83 10/22 29

unemployment: g77 12/22 29

among diploma holders: g83 5/22 29-30

weather:

harmattan: g78 10/8 27-28

witchcraft: g72 3/8 8-11; g71 7/8 16-20; g67 12/22 14-15, 29-30; g65 6/22 22; g64 2/22 26; g64 4/22 14; g63 1/8 14; g63 2/8 9-11; g62 8/22 6; g57 9/22 9-11; g51 10/22 9-11

witch doctors: g85 7/22 22-24; w82 1/15 23; g82 1/22 30

women: g75 12/8 13-14; g71 10/22 6-8; g67 6/8 24-26; g66 8/22 12; g50 7/8 26-28

work done by: g82 5/8 6

World War II: g41 3/5 11; g41 7/23 18-19

Zimbabwe ruins: g69 8/22 24-26

Jehovah’s Witnesses

absence of spiritism: w58 313

annual report: yb86 9; yb85 6-11; w80 1/1 18-21; yb75 5-11; w61 108

assemblies:

“Men of Goodwill” District Assemblies: w71 155-158

Witness exhonerated due to attending: w75 351

chief calls Witnesses true disciples of Jesus: g77 9/22 15

commendation: g75 3/8 15; g73 10/8 30; is 147-148; w66 591; w54 525-527

commendation for conduct: g81 10/8 14; g79 10/8 19; w78 4/15 12; g76 9/8 11-12

commendation for family life: g79 5/8 25

commendation for honesty: g79 5/8 24-25

commendation for racial harmony: g79 5/8 25-26

conventions: g61 4/8 23

discussion: w82 2/1 17; g63 8/8 21-23

growth: w82 1/1 25, 30; w62 638-639

Life magazine article: g53 8/22 13-18

life story of a festival singer: g74 2/8 24-26

literacy program: g79 5/8 24; g64 6/8 19

marriages: w73 153-155

Memorial: w78 1/1 28

missionaries: w67 83

modern history: yb76 67-76, 78-242; w71 11-14; yb71 11-16; jp 236; w56 7

neutrality: w79 11/1 7; yb73 163-164; w67 520

youth in school: yb78 12

opposition:

misrepresentation: w53 475, 477, 575

persecution: yb83 16; w80 7/15 32; yb80 19-20; w79 1/1 22-24; w79 10/15 14; yb79 14; w78 10/1 9; w72 144; w71 118

persons:

Brown, W. R.: yb86 189-196, 198-200, 203-204, 207-208, 210, 212-213; yb79 175

publications: w59 523

service experiences: g80 7/22 25-26; w72 70-71; w31 238

employment changed: w71 533-534

family won over: g73 1/22 15-16

freed from spiritism: g85 7/22 24-25; us 46-47

marriages saved: g67 9/22 13-14

mother won over: w71 533

prostitute: g77 6/22 23

witch doctor accepts truth: g85 7/22 25

serving where need is greater: w66 570-571

traveling overseers: w69 567

unity: w71 122-127

women: g67 6/8 25-26

Quotations

Jehovah’s Witnesses:

earned the reputation of being scrupulously honest: g80 3/8 15

greater success than others in maintaining stable marital unions: g80 3/8 15

inculcate a rigorous ethic of personal integrity: g77 1/22 7

instill values of hard work, punctuality, sobriety: g79 5/8 26

more successful than any other group in the speed with which they eliminate tribal discrimination: w84 3/15 12; g79 5/8 26

most upright and diligent of the citizenry of African countries: g82 3/22 8; g77 2/8 9

orderly citizens living up to a high moral code: g84 5/22 17

persecution of Witnesses by rulers in attempt to consolidate one-party regimes: g76 8/22 29

promiscuity of African society is inconceivable among Witnesses: g81 10/8 14

qualities have consequences for work and civic involvement: g77 1/22 7

refuse to take bribes: g77 1/22 7

sect inculcates habits of thrift, punctuality, honesty and obedience: g84 5/22 17; g81 10/8 14

uniquely successful in getting their following to keep high standards of moral rigour: g79 5/8 26

values by which Witnesses live throughout Africa an inspiration to countries therein: w77 39

our ancient continent is now on the brink of disaster: w81 5/15 30

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