Word: bwanas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want any of this India Bwana stuff," he would cry, and he denounced the moderate Africans in the government as "quislings" who had sold out their country for "a cup of tea in a white man's house." Though always arguing against violence, he called himself "the extremist of extremists," and had a way of stirring up his people as no man had before. He boasts: "To the majority of Africans in Nyasaland, I am the Lord Mayor's Show in London...
...Europeans, he has moderated his views recently. London says that independence is a long way off, and the British have assured their continued control of the 67-man council by retaining a majority of seats for their own appointees. But as his followers sang a little hymn to "Bwana Julius Nyerere, that you may continue to seek freedom on our behalf," Nyerere called for responsible self-government in Tanganyika next year, predicted confidently: "Independence will follow as surely as the tickbirds follow the rhino...
When the trial began in Nairobi, it seemed inevitable that it would provide Mboya with the kind of martyrdom that is so invaluable in nationalist politics. The first day, Bwana Tom (as his idolatrous followers call him) arrived ostentatiously wearing a Ghana toga of kente cloth. Wherever he went, his followers trailed him crying the Ghana chant: "FreeDOM! Free-DOM!" His new People's Convention Party, modeled after Nkrumah's party, organized an effective boycott of buses, beer and tobacco, staged such wild demonstrations that the police had to call on Mboya himself to stop them...
...cross-examination (as the judge remarked at the end of the trial) as simple, frank and engaging men. Last week the court declared Mboya & Co. guilty of criminal libel, slapped each with a token ?75 fine, not enough to make martyrs of them. Outside the courthouse, where thousands of Bwana Tom's followers had demonstrated only a few days before, one native forlornly waved a placard saying EIGHT MILLION AFRICANS ON TRIAL, for the benefit of the small, halfhearted crowd-and the Nairobi police phlegmatically waited to quell the riot that never came...
...pictures to distribute was to build up a stable of independent producers and stars to make them. The independents were only too anxious; they not only had free artistic rein, but by capital-gains deals could make millions if their pictures were successes. One of the first U.A. pictures, Bwana Devil, drew no critical hosannas, but it cashed in heavily on the 3-D boomlet it helped launch...