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Black Europeans. Most controversial of all is the widespread practice of polygamy, which most of the young women of the cities vehemently oppose. "If my husband took another wife, I would hound him to death," says one Nairobi university graduate. "But anyway, he wouldn't." A surprising number of educated women seem to disagree. Reasons Grace Onyango, Kenya's first African woman to be elected to Parliament: "If a man can handle 15 wives at one time, he can probably lead a nation." In any case, few African males favor abolishing the practice. As a Kenyan chauffeur puts...
Another is Janet Young, an ebullient West African who studied drama in London, traveled with her husband to the U.S., and now lives in Nairobi. Her husband teaches at University College, and she leads a busy suburban existence raising two children, learning Swahili and starting a drama group. "I've lived in England, where it is too cold," says Mrs. Young, "and in America, where it is too different. I know that I belong in Africa." The dilemma for most young women of the new Africa is that they have neither the means to live like Mrs. Young...
...well be," Rogers told TIME'S John Blashill as his Air Force 707 jet streaked south from Addis toward Nairobi, "that the U.S. can play a major role in channeling the African nations toward regional development-without spending too much money." Given the prevailing "no-foreign-entanglements" mood of Congress, sizable increases in U.S. aid to Africa are unlikely in any case. Thus Rogers intends to supplement aid "by looking for ways to encourage private investment...
Late in the week, Rogers conferred in Nairobi with Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta, then planned to spend the weekend watching elephants in the wild splendors of Tsavo National Park, 150 miles from the capital. "Let's not call it a day off," he told his staff. "Let's call it a fact-finding expedition." Facts, after all, are what he is looking for -and over the next stops on his ten-country, two-week trip-Zambia, the Congo, Cameroun, Nigeria, Ghana and Liberia-Rogers will be looking hard for areas in which U.S. aid can be more effectively...
Then began a nightmarish, nine-day odyssey of 17,069 miles. When she sought to return to Kenya, she was refused entry. Three other countries rejected her pleas for admission. She drifted to airports in Frankfurt, Zurich, Athens, Nairobi and Johannesburg, still clad in the same lime-green sari and red cardigan she wore when she left home. She was near collapse: "I have lived on rolls and coffee for a week," she said. "I just want to go to bed and sleep...