Word: kraals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Working under cover of darkness, Rhodesian officials last week swooped down on the thatched kraal of Chief Rekayi Tangwena. After a brief, bitter struggle, Rekayi and a subchief were bundled into a police Land-Rover and driven to a tribal reserve 17 miles away...
...virtually every man, woman and child in the country.* In Guatemala, six times as many people listen to radio as read newspapers. Black Africa, which had fewer than 400,000 radios in 1955, has at least 6,000,000 today. In rice field or rain forest, compound or kraal, the mere possession of a transistor radio confers status on its owner-who has perhaps gone hungry to make his down payment, and worked a little harder to keep up the installments. Thus, even before a sound emerges from it, the radio has exerted a social force. And once...
...live long enough to find out. In 1828, covetous relatives dethroned Shaka by the usual method-murder. Over the next 50 years, successive assassinations eventually lodged a grandson, Cetshwayo, in the royal kraal at Ulundi. Fate and the British decreed that this gentle bull of a man would preside over the nation's death...
...captors, won him popular sympathy, and he was restored to his throne. But it was not the same throne he had lost. The British had divided Zululand into 13 ineffectual kingdoms whose impis endlessly clashed for a power no longer there. In 1884, Cetshwayo died mysteriously in his kraal at 53, either of heart trouble or poison-no one bothered to determine which. By 1902, Zululand lay open to peaceful colonization. The new rulers were met by Zulu children, hawking spearheads and cartridge cases dug up from the fields where their fathers fell...
Fictioneer Outdone. Evelyn Waugh is no newcomer to the chattering kraal of African commentary. It is 30 years now since the young, not yet famous writer packed his traps for the Dark Continent. It seemed a pointless excursion at the time, but he was convinced that Europe was entering on a phase of barbarism, at the very moment the African races believed that they were emerging from it. The perception of that parallel lay at the heart of Waugh's satiric genius. His Bright Young People-the Mayfair savages of his English novels-were tribal kin to his jungle...