Word: kwacha
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...initially been trained for combat during the war against the Portuguese minority regime. Still maintaining a military component, LIMA now has chapters throughout the Angolan countryside and concentrates on political mobilization of the populations in those areas, instructing women in effective techniques of village political organizing. Its Kwacha Institute in Sambo, near the small town of Vila Nova, provides care for the elderly and disabled, administering occupational therapy and literacy classes. LIMA also operates cooperative farms in which food is produced for public institutions such as the orphanages under their care. City women pledge two or three days a week...
...decade ago. The stadium would fill with cheering Africans. The band would play a tattoo. Schoolchildren would scramble forward to slay papier-mâché dragons representing poverty, ignorance and disease. Fireworks would ignite the southern sky. At midnight a throaty cheer of "Uhuru!" (Swahili for "freedom") or "Kwacha!" ("dawn" in Bemba and Nyanja) would shake the ground as the flag of the colonial power was lowered and the colors of the new nation raised...
Four years and two months from the day it finally won kwacha - freedom - Zambia last week held its first parliamentary election as a sovereign state...
...Revolution. The British pound was named for its weight in silver, and nationalistic France naturally named its money the franc. Last week Zambia announced that it would soon trade in its pounds, shillings and pence for something more poetic. In 1968 it will change to decimal currency and one kwacha (dawn) will be worth 100 ngwee (brightnesses...
...white populations of the two colonies, too badly outnumbered to maintain control, began calling for help. In British eyes, the only solution was to weld them into a federation with Southern Rhodesia, whose large white police force and greater degree of self-government might quell the cries for kwacha, or independence. It was a scheme worthy of Rhodes, but not even federation could stem the tide. It lasted exactly ten years...