Word: salaams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kivukoni College was founded at the time of Tanganyika's independence in 1961 to help train men moving into positions of leadership in the country at the local level. It stands across the harbor from Dar es Salaam, accessible only by ferry or five circuitous miles of dirt road. I crossed the ferry for the first time in June, 1964, a little bedraggled from a 24-hour bus trip from Nairobi to Dar es Salaam and very curious about what it would be like to teach there. A man in a Volkswagen, who turned out to be a West German...
...addition to lectures, seminars and tutorials, the students take trips to farms and factories around Dar es Salaam. In "workshops" they investigate local problems such as what the effect of including the local villages in the city limits might be, or what what might be done about beggars in Dar es Salaam...
...taught last year at Kurasini International College, a secondary school in Dar es Salaam run by the African-American Institute primarily for refugees from southern Africa. Most of the students came from Mozambique, Southwest Africa or Rhodesia. When we arrived, the "school" consisted of a house whose rooms had been converted to classrooms. The rooms were crowded and uncomfortable in the heat...
...eleven routes around the block ade, which Rhodesia started as retaliation against Britain. British, American and Canadian airlifts are bringing in oil from ports on both the Atlantic and Indian oceans, while trains, trucks, lake boats and barges are hauling it in from as far away as Dar es Salaam (transportation costs run as high as $3.50 per gallon). Last week negotiations were under way for yet another airlift-this one from Mozambique, whose Portuguese rulers may sympathize with Prime Minister Ian Smith and his white rebels but who long ago learned to cover their bets. Said an official...
Committed to save Zambia's economy, Wilson ordered an airlift of oil from Dar es 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...