Word: bantu
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...directs an ambitious, $200,000-a-year experiment on diet, which spans three continents and seven nations and is still growing. Pursuing it, he has logged 500,000 miles, suffered indescribable digestive indignities, and meticulously collected physiological data on the health and eating habits of 10,000 individuals, from Bantu tribesmen to Italian contadini. He has measured the skinfolds (the fleshy areas under the shoulder blades) of Neapolitan firemen, studied the metabolism of Finnish woodcutters, analyzed the "mealie-meal" eaten by Capetown coloreds, and experimented on Minneapolis businessmen...
...tribal basis? The tribes' individual rights would be guaranteed, and their respective potentialities developed while they worked together for the common good. I am a Masai of Tanganyika. We are a pastoral people, and we do not want our highland grazing areas taken from us by our agriculturist Bantu neighbors. We, too, are separated from our Masai brothers in Kenya by "an artificial and arbitrary boundary drawn years ago by the European colonialists." We want that boundary erased. But we also want "a new nation"-a free Tanganyika and East Africa...
Verwoerd had no such intention. "Should multiracial government succeed in South Africa . . . inevitably it will mean Bantu domination over all," he cried to the throng gathered to celebrate the nation's soth anniversary. "The whites must continue to govern." And in case anyone had any doubts that apartheid was still to remain the holy doctrine, he called for full speed ahead on the vast project to herd millions of South African blacks into segregated tribal states in the virgin bush...
...Rhodesia, various sects-such as the Watchmen, the Sacred Heart of Jesus Lumpa Church, the Church of God, the Bantu National Church-have broken away from the mission churches and are making considerable headway. One of the most successful new prophets is one Mister Wilson "Good," known as "Jesus"' to his followers, who wears a white robe and rides an ass instead of Rhodesia's customary bicycle...
...Blank of pointing "an unclean finger of accusation." It is proper, they said, for the whites to tell the African that they did not wish to accept him in their church, for it would not be fair to expect him to be an imitation of the whites. "Instead the Bantu should serve God in his own church," insisted one Dutch Reformed spokesman...