Word: mombasa
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...latest explosion of enmity between East Africa's blacks and Asian immigrants, many of whom were similarly driven out of Kenya in 1967. Large numbers of Asians arrived in East Africa at the turn of the century to help build a railway inland from the port of Mombasa. By the time Uganda was granted independence by the British in 1962, the Asians, who were better educated and more enterprising than the majority of the Africans with whom they dealt, ran four out of five businesses in the country, and had monopolized the important coffee and cotton industries. Black Ugandans...
...Mombasa, Kenya...
...master casually speaks the word "jungle" -and Arlene, will-she nill-she. is replaced by Mombasa, The Jungle Girl. Our old friend Dan is Tarzan. He's screaming a Tarzan yell, and Arlene finds herself standing on her chair yelling "Tarzan! Here I am! Tarzan...
...Salaam, and soon five R.A.F. Britannias began flying in from the Tanzania port. The U.S. and Canada announced that they would help out with an airlift of their own. The Great North Road, a part dirt, part asphalt strip that links Lusaka with the east coast at Mombasa and Dar es Salaam, groaned under the heavy loads of trucks...
...Spot. The A.P.A. is headed by a pair of grizzled Nairobi medicine men, M'ganga Ngari Kinyugo and Ayurvedic Vaid Bhagwandas Patel, and has attracted 2,000 members from Lake Victoria to Mombasa, charges dues of 280 a month, holds monthly meetings, forms committees and clashes with the government, just like medical associations elsewhere. It also feuds with rival organizations, notably one called African Repairs, whose aim is simply the repair of Africans but whose choice of name is unfortunate. Said one almost-member: "It sounds too much like a society of garage mechanics...