Word: khartoum
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...money to pay for the planes nor the business to warrant them; the Boeing order has been canceled, and Nkrumah is trying to get Russia to take back some of the Ilyushins. Reason: in the last three months, the Ilyushins have carried exactly twelve paying passengers on the Accra-Khartoum...
Kayira set off again, walking 50 miles a day, sometimes hitchhiking, and eventually boarding a White Nile steamer. "I had no food, but by the mercy of God on the boat was an American tourist." This Samaritan fed Kayira until he reached Khartoum, where he marched proudly into the U.S. embassy for a visa...
...heads bashed in and their brains removed, dried and ritually eaten. Last week the British finally got around to releasing the first complete and authoritative account of the Mau Mau disaster-an almost clinically detached, 322-page report by Career Colonial Administrator Frank D. Corfield, 58, onetime Governor of Khartoum...
...long safari through Kenya and Uganda, Teddy's grandson Kermit, 44, a vice president of Gulf Oil Corp., set out with two of his sons to retrace some of the route. Kermit Roosevelt will carry the same .405 big-game rifle that his grandfather lugged from Mombasa to Khartoum, but the present-day Roosevelt's safari will last only 25 days, be a much less lavish expedition than Teddy's. Aside from the hunting. Kermit, also a writing man, will take notes and pictures for a contemplated book and magazine articles...
...poor ones abound). Africa's best are often wasted; Makerere's topnotch professors often have classes of only six students when they could be teaching 50. The need is all the more urgent as the European teacher supply dwindles. Example: the Sudan's fine University of Khartoum (enrollment: 1,260), where Britons are leaving the faculty and few Sudanese are replacing them. Fearing lower standards, Khartoum hopes to attract U.S. teachers through exchange programs. The hope may be ephemeral: perhaps 300 U.S. teachers are now in Africa, most of them in mission schools, only a handful...