Word: bantu
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McCormack himself can say "hello" in over 65 different languages, including Bantu, Inuit and Urdu...
Scientists have found the earliest known appearance of HIV in humans--in the blood sample of a Bantu man from Central Africa who died in 1959. The study, co-authored by Dr. David Ho and to be published in this week's Nature, holds little promise for the HIV sufferer of today. But its findings may shed important light on the virus' murky origins...
Marie Daulne, the lead singer for the vocal group Zap Mama, has a personal history worthy of a leading character in a Jean-Claude Van Damme flick. After her Belgian father was slain in 1964 by rebels bent on ethnic cleansing, Daulne, a native of Zaire, and her Bantu mother took shelter with a tribe of pygmies before escaping to Belgium. With a background like that, it's no wonderDaulne makes music that sounds like a one-woman multicultural movement, melding African percussion, American soul and European urbanity...
...Biko led to his death. He remembers the summer night in August 1977 and the roadblock on the highway in the eastern Cape, 80 miles from Port Elizabeth. He hears his friend's calm reply to the police officer's question, "Who are you, big man?": "I am Steven Bantu Biko." He recalls the long, fearful hours in a holding cell, where he and Biko destroyed a secret document by eating it. He remembers the handcuffs and leg-irons at police headquarters in Port Elizabeth; the pimply-faced policeman in a shiny suit snarling, "You're going to disappear...
...aims at putting up a million new houses, providing a million others with running water and flush toilets, and bringing electricity to 2.5 million more homes. The plan provides for free and compulsory schooling for children and adult education for millions of blacks who learned almost nothing under inferior "Bantu education." It also calls for diverting public-health funds to provide and improve clinics in the poorest areas...