Word: dar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven students, members of PBH's Project Tanganyika, are living in the suburbs of Dar es Salaam, where new fighting in a revolt by the army against its British officers broke out yesterday...
...their search for an African identity, the continent's contemporary poets-many of them leading politicians-today have forsaken their mission-school Golden Treasury to rediscover the pagan rhymes and rhythms that enlivened tribal life long before the white man came. Says Léopold Sédar Senghor, who is black Africa's most distinguished poet as well as President of Senegal: "Poetry must find its way back to its origins...
...eyes to the rainbow of April And the ears, above all the ears, to God who out of the laugh of a saxophone created the heaven and the earth in six days. And the seventh day he slept the great sleep of the Negro. - Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal...
Tanganyika (pop. 9,560,000), where Stanley met Livingstone and Hemingway found Kilimanjaro, became a republic this week. For five days, the prancing crowds in Dar es Salaam celebrated the event, shrilling their approval of the fresh daubed letters "JT" (for Jamhuri Tanganyika, Republic of Tanganyika) on banners hung throughout the city. The rest of the world could also celebrate, for leader of the proud new republic would be Julius Nyerere, 40, a sensible, spindly onetime schoolteacher, who listens to the raucous cries of "Uhuru" (freedom) from the fiery nationalists of Africa, then puts his personal addendum on the slogan...
...addition to teaching much-needed English courses in Dar es Salaam and other major cities in Tanganyika, the Project hopes to place volunteer workers in hospitals, dispensaries, or public health programs across the country. Bennett said there might also be famine relief work such as two project members did during the summer...