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Word: assegais (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...articles before leaving South Africa, "but I don't even know the language of that tribe. I was brought up in a Zulu-speaking home, yet I can no longer think in Zulu because that language cannot cope with the demands of our day. I have never owned an assegai or any of those magnificent Zulu shields. Neither do I propose to wear tribal dress when I go to the U.S. I am just not a tribesman. I am, in escapably, a part of the city slums and the factory machines...

Author: By John D. Gerhart, | Title: Nathaniel Nakasa | 3/31/1965 | See Source »

...just behind South Africa and Portuguese Angola on the list of "public enemies" drawn up by the Liberation Committee of the Organization of African Unity. With its upper half locked in the vise of militant black Africa, and the newly independent nation of Malawi (formerly Nyasaland) jutting like an assegai into its heart, Mozambique is in a precarious position. Larger in area than Texas, the torrid, subequatorial nation is run by 163,000 whites and Asians who are outnumbered 40 to 1 by blacks. Yet Portugal's Dictator Antonio Salazar, who sits in a Lisbon palace 5,000 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mozambique: Public Enemy No. 3 | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

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