U.S. Assistant Secretary of State G. Mennen Williams is not popular with Africa's white settlers. It all goes back to a speech he delivered earlier this year in Nairobi, Kenya, declaring that the U.S. stood for a policy of "Africa for the Africans." Williams' belated explanation that "Africans"' also included Africa's whites never seemed totally convincing.
Last week Williams wound up a 30,000-mile swing through 13 African countries. In Nyasaland. he officially received the title of honorary white chief; in the Ivory Coast he picked up a carved canne de jugement, symbol of tribal justice. At Northern Rhodesia's Lusaka airport,...