Word: bantu
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...sometimes canonizes them to reward the Christian loyalty of a country's faithful or to make some moral point. Last week the Vatican expressed its interest in the African church and its opposition to racism by announcing that in October, Pope Paul VI would proclaim as saints 22 Bantu converts from Uganda who were martyred between...
...million blacks are restricted chiefly to unskilled labor, but at least some of them have been permitted to seek out their own humble jobs. Last week Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's regime prepared to erase even that right. Gaveled through Parliament was an amendment to the Bantu Laws designed to give the government total control over the employment, place of residence and movements of every African worker...
...Tanganyika had three things working for it that made the country seem ideally suited for uhuru. Of its 10,000,000 population, 98% is African. And although the people are divided into 120 separate tribes, the majority are of Bantu stock, and all share the Swahili lingua franca. Thus, unlike neighboring Kenya and Uganda, Tanganyika has no basic conflicts between rival tribes or kingdoms, nor had it a large white-settler population to fight against independence and give rise to black Mau Mau-type terrorism. What whites there were mostly stuck to the cool, green coffee-and-banana highlands...
Julius Kambarage Nyerere was born 42 years ago near Musoma, on the shores of Lake Victoria, into a pagan, tribal world. His father was a chief of the Zanaki, a small (40,000 members) Bantu tribe that filed the teeth of their young and fought the fierce, blood-and-milk-drinking Masai. Herding goats as a boy, Julius, at twelve, wrapped himself in a piece of trade cloth and hiked off to begin his education...
Mkele, whose earnings have reached $600 a month, a stratospheric sum for a Bantu, finds his fellow Bantus becoming so sophisticated about advertising that they are beginning to lean toward the same prestige symbols as Americans. Bantu men looking for British respectability in their attire have long bought the most expensive clothes they could afford. Mkele suggested that stores also stock "a dignity bag in the form of a reasonably priced attaché case." When they hit the Bantu market, the attaché cases sold like-well, like attaché cases sell along the New Haven Railroad...