Word: kampala
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pepper around their eyes, or burning their huts. Some 100,000 refugees have crossed the border into Uganda, and more may move soon. Prime Minister Mahgoub says his government is still committed to "a peaceful solution within the framework of a unified Sudan"; Any a Nya leaders in Kampala interpret this to mean a new government offensive as soon as the rainy season ends...
Fifteen months after leaving home, Legson appeared at the U.S. Information Service Library in Kampala, Uganda. There he came across a directory of American junior colleges, opened it at random, put his finger on the first words he saw: "Skagit Valley Junior College, Mt. Vernon, Washington." Then and there, he wrote a letter; two weeks later he had a scholarship; nine months later, thanks to the people of Mount Vernon, he had a plane ticket...
...that made him creak a bit as he dropped to his knees. But that only made the student body cheer and whistle all the louder when Jomo Kenyatta knelt to become a Doctor of Laws. Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania and chancellor of newly founded East African University in Kampala, placed his own tasseled cap on Jomo's head to confer the university's first honorary degree. "Do we call you 'doctor' now?" a friend asked as he was leaving. "No," said Jomo. "Call me Mzee...
...anti-Americanism in hopes of pulling his own country's warring factions together, and his government radio urged employers to give everyone a day off for protest riots. Sure enough, next day a holiday crowd brought in by trucks from the provinces surged around the U.S. embassy in Kampala. The mob brandished signs proclaiming TO HELL WITH AMERICA-BLOODTHIRSTY GO HOME! While Cabinet ministers and parliamentarians beamingly watched from the plinth of the Obote Freedom Arch, two rioters scaled the embassy's roof and tore down the American flag...
...Consul spoke in place of the Ugandan ambassador, who had just been recalled to Kampala for consultations. Kalisa said the Africans' rejection of foreign rule was based on the belief, expressed by the American Revolution, in the rights of man and the rights of self-rule...