Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Air Attack. Because some 60% of the population of the Mayo-Kebbi valley had been stricken with onchocerciasis, the French colonial government decided some four months ago to choose this well-limited area (250,000 acres) to fight the disease to a standstill. Into the valley rushed a team of...
Last week the Mayo-Kebbi valley was free of the Nbwa fly for the first time in memory, and natives were returning to their homes. It would be several months-at least until the disease incubation period had passed-before authorities could say for sure that the scourge had been...
Princeton's Walter T. Stace. 68, onetime British colonial official (he was mayor of Colombo, Ceylon), now one of the leading philosophers of the English-speaking world. A shy, retiring scholar, Stace started out training for the ministry at Dublin's Trinity College, has combined his studies of...
In colonial Kenya, the best farmlands are the Highlands, known as the White Highlands because only white settlers are permitted to own land there. Forty-three thousand whites share about 12,000 sq. mi. of the Highlands, while the colony's 5,300,000 Africans are crowded into 52...
Like the edge of a locust swarm, the frontier of Commuterland advances, driving the farmers before it and leaving deposits of white colonial mansions and wrought-iron signs upon the green, tumbled land. But just ahead of the chirking mass, beyond the last bounds of a commuter's endurance...