Word: kikuyu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does complain, however, that this continuation of a summer research project takes precious time away from her own research, which is on Kikuyu, a language spoken by the natives of central Kenya. Involvement with faraway places is not something altogether new to Bergvall...
Most fourth-year grad students take only highly specialized courses and research their theses--there is little time to indulge an intellectual whim. For Bergvall, though, this course provides the historical context for her own research in Kikuyu. She has, in fact, applied for a Fulbright grant to study the language in Kenya next year...
Save for its ferocity, the abortive coup might have been dismissed as an aberration. The rebel enlisted men did not appear to have any ideological motivation, and many were members of the Kikuyu tribe, which dominates the country's sole political party, the Kenya African National Union (K.A.N.U.). When the insurgents seized Nairobi's Voice of Kenya radio station, they announced the overthrow of Moi's "corrupt and dictatorial" government in the name of a shadowy National Redemption Council. The airmen backed their denunciations with recordings of Caribbean reggae tunes and Viennese waltzes...