Word: bamangwato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in 1948 Oxford-educated Seretse Khama, chief-designate of Bechuanaland's Bamangwato tribe, married a blonde English clerk named Ruth Williams. At first the tribal elders were outraged, but later, after tribal council, they accepted Seretse and his white wife. But not Uncle Tshekedi, who had acted as tribal regent during Seretse's minority. He asked the British High Commissioner for a judicial inquiry into Seretse's fitness to rule. The British found that Seretse, by marrying without consulting his tribe had, like Britain's own Edward VIII, failed in his public duty. They banished...
Liberal leader Clement Davies rose last week in the House of Commons and said: "I beg to move that this House deplores the decision to continue the banishment of Tshekedi Khama from the Bamangwato Territory . . . and calls upon His Majesty's Government to rescind the order and allow him to dwell freely within the territory of his tribe...
...been 15 months since Tshekedi, prosperous cattle rancher and former tribal Regent, was kicked out of the Bamangwato Reserve in the British Protectorate of Bechuanaland, following into exile his nephew, handsome, Oxford-educated Seretse Khama, chief of the Bamangwatos (TIME, March...
Born. To Chief Seretse Khama, 28, tribal ruler of the Bamangwato in the British protectorate of Bechuanaland, Africa, ordered by the British into a five-year exile for marrying a white woman in 1948, and his Queen, Ruth Khama, 26, former London stenographer: their first child, a girl; in Serowe, Bechuanaland. Name: Jacqueline. Weight...
After three months, Oxford-bred Seretse Khama, chief of the Bamangwato, was finally allowed by the British to return to his homeland for a five-day reunion with his white wife, former London Typist Ruth Williams, who is expecting a baby in June. As crowds of Bamangwato shouted happily and grizzled tribal elders cried pula, pula (welcome, welcome), Ruth, sobbing and laughing, ran over the rough sand into her husband's arms...