Friday, Mar. 23, 1962
The Freedom Writhers
The freedom ride may be all right in the U.S., but female nationalists in Africa have developed a more startling form of protest against racial discrimination: the freedom strip.
In an effort to woo Africans away from Northern Rhodesia's black nationalist parties, Federal Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky's followers recently set up a political organization called "Build a Nation." The nationalists got sore when the organization's headquarters in Lusaka displayed pictures of both white and black political leaders, showing fiery, black Nationalist Kenneth Kaunda alongside white supremacists and Uncle Toms. To protest, 15 African girls pranced into the Build a Nation office last week. When the manager refused to remove Kaunda's picture, off came their clothes. Buff naked, the strippers danced about and chanted: "Kaunda, Kaunda, Freedom now, cha cha cha." Local cops finally arrived, wrapped blankets around the freedom writhers and hustled them off to the clink.
Said Kenneth Kaunda blandly: "British suffragettes demonstrated in extreme ways. We are only doing what the British did."
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