Word: jambo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...born Baptist Devitt. For 25 years 51-year-old William Devitt and his wife Edith have labored among the Kikuyu, traveling 25,000 miles each year through the Rift Valley to direct the mission's 80 schools for Kikuyu children. The natives affectionately call him "Bwana Jambo" (Mister Hello) because of his friendly greetings. When the Mau Mau revolt began in 1952, Devitt organized Kikuyu of his area to protect themselves. For his pains, he was put on the Mau Mau murder list...
...dark corner in a large cage in a Pittsburgh zoo sits Jambo. He huddles beneath a blanket with only his eyes staring glumly out to greet the world. His eyes are deep brown with dark rings beneath them. His entire appearance is extraordinarily melancholy--especially for a gorilla from Central Africa. But Jambo is not only melancholy and underweight--he is neurotic...
...brand a poor helpless gorilla "neurotic" seems rather cruel. But experts from the Highland Park Zoo and the Bronx Zoo have officially concluded that Jambo's misery stems from a psychosomatic condition. Having taken X-rays, blood tests, and chest thumpings, the doctors declared that all Jumbo really needs is "tender, loving care...
...worthwhile ape lover knows that when a genuine, Swahili-captured, African gorilla becomes emotionally disturbed, a more basic cause then the absence of human "tender, loving care" must be present. Jambo, it must be relized, is not only a male, but he is masculine. He is also four years old--an important stage in the life of a gorilla...
...when the doctors considered Jambo's personality--not to mention his hopeful glances from beneath a blanket--they should have realized that the trouble was more basic than rejection by his cage keeper. What Jambo needs, and what the doctors should import, is a brown, furry, Central African, Swahili-captured, female gorilla...