Word: kampala
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Indians fear: Uganda's Parliament enacted a higher sugar tax largely aimed at the Madhvanis. But they have hedged against too much discrimination by heavily supporting charities and political parties in the three nations, and by presenting the government of Uganda with a $500,000 office building in Kampala. They have hired some black African executives. Jayant, a citizen of Uganda and a former member of its colonial legislature, continues to cultivate his old political friendships...
Tribesmen clad in leopard skins and ostrich plumes danced to the sound of rawhide drums and blaring trumpets of antelope horn. From a thousand hilltops bonfires burst into flame. In the capital city of Kampala strings of electric lights illumined the facades of churches, mosques and Hindu temples. Thus Uganda this week became the fifth African nation to gain its freedom in a year, and the 28th since 1956. Even informed observers are becoming dazed by the endless roll call of big and little new nations that sound more and more like commuter stops on a train to Timbuctoo: Gambia...
Legson Kayira is a Tumbuka tribesman from Nyasaland who is in love-with Skagit Valley College in Mount Vernon, Wash. The junior college, which has 650 students, mainly local, first learned of Kayira's devotion last February when he sent a scholarship application from Kampala, Uganda. The school heard from him again this fall, when he sent a letter that began: "In October of the year of our Lord 1958, I began a journey-a long and difficult journey-a journey to glory or death." The letter went on to paint a picture of a youngster so hungry...
...being built, I asked to carry bricks." He earned two-fifths of a cent for every 80 bricks, enough to buy bananas and to get him eventually to Mwanza on Lake Victoria in July 1959. There he worked for six months to raise money for a boat trip to Kampala. He spent $1.05 for a physics book (which he memorized), and haunted the U.S. Information Service library. One day he stumbled on Skagit Valley in a directory of U.S. colleges. "I wrote a letter and got one back saying I had a scholarship...
Last week, with more patients under treatment by Kenya Surgeons Michael Wood and John K. Duff, and Kampala Surgeon Richard Trussell, U.S.-African doctors were trying to find what other forms of cancer would yield to the promising new technique...