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...Eliza Bailey...
Kenya's Eliza. In a massive rejection of traditional roles and values that might be called the African counterpart of the Women's Liberation movement, hundreds of thousands of African girls have left their villages to go to school, and have never returned. In the Ivory Coast, seven times as many women as men are moving to the cities. Some join the growing student population; 40% of Kenya's secondary school pupils and 10% of its students overseas today are women. Others manage to find jobs as shopgirls, typists and clerks. In Monrovia, Liberia, women drive cabs...
...time of independence, crash courses were held in many African capitals to teach the wives of government officials the niceties of Western manners. The handsome Ngina Kenyatta, fourth wife of Kenya's President Jomo Kenyatta, 79, is an African answer to Eliza Doolittle. She is said to have spent a year being coached by British instructors in deportment, table manners, fashion, ballroom dancing and public speaking before emerging as "Mama...
Unlike most of her predecessors, she has always been the prime mover of her own star; she has played Professor Higgins to her own Eliza Doolittle. In a community where everyone minds everyone else's libidinous business, Raquel has a reputation for having climbed to the top without using...
...Leverett and Eliot got Harvard's only tackle football wins. The Jumbos won a close contest with Eliza Stiles-Morse, 14-8, and Leverett easily handled Timothy Dwight-Stillman...