Word: khama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chief-designate Seretse Khama, who had married Miss Williams against strenuous opposition from his family and the British authorities (TIME, July 11), cheerfully conducted his wife to her home, just being finished at Serowe, the mud-hut capital of Bechuanaland (pronounced Betcher Wanna Land). The home would be a three-room bungalow with a tin corrugated roof. Ruth's arrival caused considerable commotion among the tribe (local traders were doing a brisk business in gaily colored prints, since the tribeswomen wished to live and dress up to the occasion). Actually, it may be months before Seretse...
Their lineal chief, strapping, handsome, Oxford-trained Seretse Khama, 27, sat among them as they weighed his choice for wife & queen. While studying law in England, Seretse had married Ruth Williams, 24, a fair-haired London typist. By Bamangwato custom the Chief may wed only with the consent of tribal elders. Seretse had not asked for such consent. He was summoned home to defend his action before the Bamangwato peers...
...hoped to persuade the United Nations to let him incorporate mandated South-West Africa into his country. Africa's blacks, who regard the South African Government as the harshest of many oppressors, opposed the merger. (One of their spokesmen, Chief Tshekedi Khama of Bechuanaland, was prevented by the British from coming to New York.) Smuts's plan was also opposed by India, whose old case against South African discrimination was boiling again. Russia would use South Africa's record as propaganda among dependent peoples everywhere. Humanitarians who agree with Smuts when he talks of one world were...