Word: african
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Near the town of Lugazi, in the Buganda section of Uganda, an African husband got home from a beer party one night recently to find his wife of 22 years entertaining three men. A fight broke out, and the husband was killed. As the guilty foursome wondered how to dispose of the corpse, a simple solution occurred to them...
...tubes filled with multicolored liquids. Fascinated, Njoroge decided that he wanted to be a physician, a next-to-impossible ambition for a Kikuyu tribesman. But for 24 years Njoroge pursued his dream. Last week, at 33, he was at sea, homeward-bound as Kenya's first U.S.-trained African physician. He will soon start construction of a 50-bed hospital, the first in Kenya to be operated for Africans by Africans...
...medical school Njoroge got the idea for his African hospital, sold it to Medico, a division of the International Rescue Committee, which persuaded U.S. drug manufacturers to donate $100,000 worth of medicines, other U.S. manufacturers to supply $40,000 worth of equipment and surgical instruments. A Stanford classmate agreed to go as resident physician-at $200 a month. By mail, Njoroge organized a committee in Kenya that persuaded tribesmen to donate land, materials and labor for the hospital. The hospital will be built in the village of Chania, 30 miles northeast of Nairobi, will be free for Africans, whose...
...Amerique. Said Allen: "We believe General de Gaulle epitomizes much of the greatness, the strength of purpose and the high dignity of France. We are immensely heartened by the restored political stability and economic equilibrium of France." He praised "your initiative in creating another community, that of the eleven African states and Madagascar with France, which has also aroused widespread acclaim...
That night, flames soared above overturned buses, clinics, community centers, shops and a library. Even an African nursery school lay in ruins, identifiable the next morning only by the charred remains of a child's kiddy car. A burning truck hurtled off a road and crushed a passer-by to death. Around one ruined clinic, sad-faced mothers squatted in bewilderment, not knowing what to do about the sick and hungry babies strapped to their backs...