Word: lingala
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...small but significant first step may have been taken in the conquest of a disease so frightening that it is enshrined in the old Lingala curse "Owa na ntolo " (May you die of sleeping sickness). At Nairobi's International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases (ILRAD), a team of scientists has managed to grow in the test tube the long, slender, infective form of the single-celled parasite Trypanosoma brucei. That feat-accomplished by Hiroyuki Hirumi, a Japanese-born American scientist, and John Doyle, a Scottish colleague-has been the aim of medical scientists for years. In the past...
Open Enthusiasm. The Kantan-gese invaders are drawn mainly from the Lunda tribe, traditionally among Central Africa's fiercest warriors. Shaba villagers have received them with open enthusiasm. Government troops, who speak Lingala-the language of the Congo River basin-rather than the local variant of Swahili, are, by contrast, feared and shunned...
...took the port of Mahagi with hardly a shot fired. A land force moved more cautiously, with four Ferret armored scout cars spraying likely ambush spots along the road with machine-gun fire. Congolese planes, flown by anti-Castro Cuban pilots, had showered leaflets on rebel territory. Printed in Lingala, Swahili...
Wasolo, where "Doctor Paul" maintained his medical mission, is a sudden clearing on the turn of a jungle road 800 miles northeast of Leopoldville and a million miles from nowhere. In Lingala, the lingua franca of the region, the place is aptly called "The End of the World." The Africans have beaten down the sobi grass around their huts in fear of snakes; beyond rises a wall of impenetrable rain forest. The hospital compound dominates a low hill. The house itself is red brick, and in the rainy season its roof pours drinking water into barrels standing beneath the eaves...
...Borden Food Products Co., makers of Klim, a powdered whole milk. On a visit to Leopoldville two years ago, McCoy noticed that, after the bicycle, the phonograph was the natives' dearest possession. He got the owner of a local record company to help him write some lyrics in Lingala, the vernacular understood up & down the Congo River, set them to a jungle rhythm and had records made. The song...