Word: jomo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With a quick change of hair style, posture and camera angle, he turns into a fire-breathing Jomo Kenyatta, a smug Queen Victoria or a lurching Foreign Secretary George Brown, sputtering: "I'm having to solve the Viet Nam war, and you don't see pictures of me doing that, do you? No! You see pictures of me doing the hokey-pokey!" In a recent takeoff on BBC documentaries, he played a mustachioed producer, a brandy-guzzling announcer, an unemployed lathe operator-and the entire British Cabinet. In last week's skit, Bird was a lisping Field...
Such African leaders as Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta and Tanzania's Julius Nyerere claimed to have more pressing business at home. All the Arab chiefs stayed away because several of the black African countries had not supported their demand for an Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab territory. But, surprisingly, more heads of state showed up than at last year's meeting in Addis Ababa, among them Ethiopia's Haile Selassie, Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda, Ghana's Joseph Ankrah and Uganda's Milton Obote...
AFRICA (ABC, 7-11 p.m.). A four-hour special touching all the bases-sights (the Nile, Kilimanjaro, the Sahara, Sphinx, Congo, jungle), wildlife, entertainment, Miriam Makeba, a Kinshasa jazz band, political leaders (including Haile Selassie, Jomo Kenyatta), history, sports, health, education, tribal life, race relations and so on. Gregory Peck is the narrator...
...been nomadic for centuries, have been settled along with them in rows of dome-shaped huts that are protected from terrorists by barbed wire and Kenyan troops armed with Bren guns. At the same time, with the ?3,000,000 a year allotted for the security and pacification effort, Jomo Kenyatta's government has done much to upgrade the nomads' lives. It has dug wells, built schools and hospital wards and provided veterinarians for sickly cattle...
Though most of the soldiers, including Gowon and Ojukwu, had never fired a shot in battle before, both sides claimed victories and at week's end filled the air waves with confident reports. Meanwhile, a number of African leaders, among them Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya and Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, assembled hastily in Nairobi to issue an appeal for an armistice...