Word: salaam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Obote, en route home from the Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference, took refuge in Dar es Salaam, capital of neighboring Tanzania. His host, President Julius Nyerere, denounced the coup as "an act of treason to the whole course of African progress." It may also have an adverse effect on the East African Community, a common market that Uganda shares with Tanzania and Kenya. Obote accused Amin of corruption and chicanery, blamed the takeover on the Israelis (who help train Uganda's armed forces) and vowed that he would go home as President. It was far more likely, however, that...
...Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere sent $1,500,000 in aid to Guinea. Libya dispatched arms. Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya and the Congo-Kinshasa promised help. Somalia opened recruiting centers for volunteers to fight in Guinea. University students demonstrated against white colonialism in Lusaka, Abidjan and Dar es Salaam. In Lagos, students toted placards reading DOWN WITH NATO and shouted "Go home, pigs!" at white passersby...
Against the mythical concept of the African woman as a spiritual force is the harsh truth that millions of women in Black Africa still endure purely tribal lives of childbearing, drudgery and subjugation. From Dakar to Dar es Salaam, they can be seen, like beasts of burden, carrying enormous loads of food and firewood on their shoulders and heads. But it is also true that in the decade of social upheaval that has come with political independence, African women have begun to leave the villages and the townships to step quite suddenly, with hardly a flicker of their ebon eyes...
This prediction is bolstered by an increasing Chinese naval interest in Tanzania, where President Julius Nyerere last month laid the foundation stone for a Chinese-built naval base at Dar es Salaam. The Indian Ocean waters off Tanzania are a natural splashdown area for ICBMs test-fired out of western China and over India, and Peking might just be looking to the day when it is ready to monitor a missile test...
...feet and raised their voices in a rhythmic chant: "One man, one wife, is the proper way of life." Petitions poured in to the government, including one that warned in Swahili: "To admit a second wife is to bring poison into the home." A letter to a Dar es Salaam newspaper cautioned simply: "Polygamy will give men big heads...