Word: bwanas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part, Kennedy shook every hand in sight-white, black and brown (and on one occasion scared the daylights out of a black who thought the big bwana was going to hit him). In Durban, Kennedy stood atop a car and sang We Shall Overcome with his audience. In Groutville, he visited Albert Luthuli, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and leader of the proscribed African National Congress. At Cape Town University, standing next to the symbolic empty chair that Ian Robertson could not occupy, Kennedy told his racially mixed audience: "We must recognize the full human equality of all our people...
...college of nation building, "extra-curricular" activities are extremely important. Kivukoni does its best to reach beyond its fulltime students. Weekend seminars on nutrition or the implementation of the Five Year Plan were held for outsiders. On the college's weekly radio program, "Bwana Mpango" (Mr. Planner) discusses the Five Year Plan with housewives, school boys, farmers, or the unemployed. Mbionl (On the Move), the college's monthly paper, is another attempt to reach a wider circle of potential nation builders...
...Tramps' Ball; first prize-a bottle of white wine-had just been awarded to a 13-year-old girl in beatnik tights when alarm bells started to ring. In the ship's cinema, where Bob Hope was cavorting on the screen with Anita Ekberg in Call Me Bwana, the audience at first thought that the ringing bells were part of the film's plot. But the smell of smoke soon convinced them that something was amiss. Other passengers who had gone to bed early were not yet fully aware of the danger. No fire instructions were issued...
...Snakes in Our Pot." Though no Africans attended the party, word of the goings on quickly leaked out-and even more quickly was distorted. Before a bwana could say "Sanders of the River," police were searching the homes of partygoers for evidence of anti-government activity. At an angry session of Parliament, outraged ministers called for vengeance. "I am sure the Uganda flag must have been trampled on," shouted one backbencher. There were cries of "What a shame...
...Call Me Bwana. Bob Hope, Anita Ekberg and Edie Adams on a spy chase through darkest Congo. Hope springs eternal, but Ekberg is a couple of jumps ahead...