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...couldn't have happened to a friendlier hippo. Making his home in the grey-green Kurasini Creek outside Dar es Salaam, Hugo is a happy-go-lucky sort who loves nothing better than romping with dogs on the bank, marching behind a herd of cattle, and frolicking in the creek, creating miniature tidal waves. Water skiers even skim over his partly submerged back without raising as much as a snort. But Hugo has a vice: good food...
...year ago, Hugo was content to munch the wild grasses and reeds along the Kurasini bank. Then one night he began feasting on the sweet potatoes, maize stalks and plump cabbages grown by nearby farmers. Before long, villagers were grabbing up their machetes and spears and shouting for Hugo's hide. With his speed (up to 30 m.p.h.) and sharp sense of smell, Hugo managed to elude his pursuers. Yet it seemed only a matter of time before he would be caught...
...based Humane Education al Institute, which once sought rubber booties for footsore Moroccan donkeys, collected $450 to create a Kurasini sanctuary for Hugo and "other animals, preferably orphans." Not to be outdone, the Tanzania S.P.C.A. raised $350 -and the support of President Julius Nyerere-for a plan to ship Hugo to the Mikumi Game Park. Nyerere, who keeps orphaned gazelles, ostriches and peacocks on his private grounds, has even set up plans for a parade through Dar es Salaam once Hugo is caught...
...taught last year at Kurasini International College, a secondary school in Dar es Salaam run by the African-American Institute primarily for refugees from southern Africa. Most of the students came from Mozambique, Southwest Africa or Rhodesia. When we arrived, the "school" consisted of a house whose rooms had been converted to classrooms. The rooms were crowded and uncomfortable in the heat...
This help is provided by the African American Institute school. Known as the Kurasini Special Training Center it is located in two large houses in a residential suburb three miles south of the city...