Word: lusaka
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...Northern Rhodesia, our Johannesburg Correspondent Edward Hughes was heading home last week after bouncing some 5,000 miles through Mozambique, the Rhodesias and into the Belgian Congo in a battered Mercury. He stopped off in Lusaka (pop. 60,000) to listen to the black natives' saucepan radio and visit the unique Central African Broadcasting Station (see RADIO & TV). Then he rolled in a cloud of dust 530 miles along the corrugated dirt track, called the Great North Road, to Chinsali, a district commissioner's headquarters. There he switched to a bicycle and pedaled down a goat path through...
Land of Champs. Ambassador Whitfield stayed at Nairobi's best hotel (the New Stanley), to the wonder of the local "non-Europeans." Only in Northern Rhodesia was there any discrimination against him: in Lusaka jittery officials did not dare put him up at the capital's one decent hotel, found him a room with a local schoolmaster. Unruffled, Whitfield later ran through six shows. No one seemed to mind sharing the track with the Olympic champion. Would-be athletes flocked to run with Whitfield, to ask questions and to hear his advice. He usually talked about the need...
...Lusaka (pop. 45,500), capital of the copper-rich British protectorate of Northern Rhodesia, Tory Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton last week opened a spanking new high school, financed by the British government and built voluntarily by its Negro students. In Lusaka's Government House, whites and blacks mingled at a cocktail party, lining up to pump the visiting minister's hand and to air their grievances...
...save his pursuer undue trouble, Kimathi politely replied (in a letter to a local newspaper in Nairobi): "I shall be away from Kenya in November and December visiting Uganda, the Sudan and Egypt. After that, I attend a Pan-African conference in Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia. (Signed) Kimathi, Marshal and Commander-in-Chief. Defense Council, Land Freedom Army...