Word: hinterlander
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...SIERRA LEONE (Br.) Pop.: 2,600,000. Size: 27,924 sq. mi. Literacy: 10%. School attendance: 20%. College graduates: 450. Christians: 30%. Capital city, Freetown, boasts University College, affiliated with Britain's Durham University since 1876. Literacy below 5% in hinterland, where pagan rituals common...
Exports: Oil, timber. Per capita income: $135. U.S. aid (1961): $100,000. U.S. Steel developing rich manganese mines; huge ore deposits also promising. Problems: backward hinterland, inadequate civil service...
...federation, and secession ist pressure is steadily mounting in Northern Rhodesia, where the United National Independence Party of wiry, in tense Kenneth Kaunda is expected to win handsomely in next October's elections. With Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia gone, white-dominated Southern Rhodesia would be left with no hinterland in which to market its manufactured goods...
Nature branded a curse on the Northeast. Except in a narrow coastal belt, rain is so scant that 87% of the area consists of parched, brown sertāo, a rolling hinterland matted with cactus-tough scrub where peasants hack at the hard soil with primitive hoes. Two months ago, the first rains in eight months brought a green fuzz to the sertāo. But drought had already ruined this year's crop of beans, corn and manioc-root flour, mainstays of the peasant diet. Famine swept the sertāo, sending thousands of camponeses to the towns...
...Prohibited. Over the years, droves of peasants have fled from the dry hinterland to the region's fertile seacoast. But no bounty is to be found there either. A few feudal landlords own virtually all the land, and the best the peasant can expect is a life as a sharecropper or tenant farmer. As a sharecropper, he gives the landlord one-third to one-half of everything he grows, usually must sell his share to his patrāo for 30% to 50% below market price. At the plantation store where he buys supplies, interest on credit runs...