Word: kampala
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week the Duke of Gloucester breaks sod on a hill outside Kampala, capital of Buganda, principal kingdom of Uganda, for the stone buildings of Makerere College for Higher Education, first all-Negro university in East Africa. Recommended by a Royal Commission on Higher Education, the university will speak English, will teach the arts, science, agriculture, medicine, education, veterinary science and engineering to bright young blacks of Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika and Zanzibar...
...crocodile anything red and biteable is edible meat. Consequently, when Imperial Airways Ltd. began installing big, red, rubber buoys at stations in the Sudan and British East Africa (Malakal, Kampala, Kisumu) to moor their flying boats, crocodiles went for the buoys with enthusiasm, punctured and sank them. Last week, Imperial's engineers in London completed designs for a crocodile-proof buoy-a strong steel cylinder buffered with a semipneumatic fender impervious to tropic teeth...