Word: bantu
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...children were of many different groups: "English, Afrikander [native Dutch or Huguenot], Jewish, Bantu, Cape Colored, Indian and Chinese." They had to put a ten-pound shot, run 100 and 600 yards, at any pace they pleased. After each child finished, the doctors made careful notes on how tired he was. Amazing was the finding: all racial groups of the same age had the same endurance. Said the doctors: "No more impressive evidence for the basic equality of man has ever been adduced...
...Charlotte, N.C., heading South, was a team composed of comely Miss Ila Sircar, associate general secretary of the Student Christian Movement in India; Dr. P. C. Hsu, University of Shanghai professor; Dr. Gonzalo Baez Camargo, Mexican Methodist leader. In Detroit, heading West, were Miss Minnie Soga, Bantu social worker in South Africa; Dr. Rajah Bhushinam Manikam, Lutheran secretary of India's National Christian Council; Dr. Hachiro Yuasa, "Christian Pacifist," onetime president of Japan's Doshisha University...
...world, Angola has long been the Cinderella colony. What little Portuguese and private funds were available went to develop Mozambique, on the other side of Africa. Discovered in 1482, Angola came into prominence in the 19th Century when colonists built up a lucrative slave trade, exporting Angola's Bantu blacks to Brazil. When slavery was abolished in Brazil in 1830, colonists gradually turned to agriculture, began to produce coffee, sugar, maize, palm oil, sisal. Meanwhile, at home, Portugal was in a mess. With two exceptions, budgets were unbalanced for three-quarters of a century and between...
Mbiyu Wa Koinange, which means Mbiyu, son of Koinange, is the son of Koinange Wa Mbiyu, which means Koinange, son of Mbiyu. In Bantu "koinange" means "dancer," Koinange Wa Mbiyu, chief of 800,000 Kikuyu tribesmen in British East Africa's Kenya Colony, was a good dancer in his youth but he never learned to read & write. Last week Mbiyu Wa Koinange, who will soon succeed his aged father as chief of the Kikuyus, got his A. B. degree at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio...
...came to the U. S. in 1927 because a Scottish pedagog told him it was cheap and had good Negro preparatory schools. His greatest handicap at Virginia's Hampton Institute (for Negroes) was his ignorance of English. Baffled by Bantu, Hampton professors could not help him much. But when he departed after four years a classmate said, "A noble person goes on his way, conscious of his nobility...