Word: shona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mother, in a flowing white robe, stood behind him chanting softly and clasping her hands. About them gathered a crowd of naked children, zoot-suited men and women in gaily-colored print dresses. Little Elias threw back his head and closed his eyes. "Hear my word!" he cried in Shona, a native dialect. "It was your fault, sinners, that our Lord died on that cross. He was nailed up there because you have been liars, thieves and adulterers before and after he went to his death. Repent, if he is to return to your hearts and homes...
...white bwanas of CABS face the rigorous problem of putting out a coherent program for 60 hours a week in eight different languages (Bemba, Nyanja, Lozi, Lunda, Luvala, Shona, Ndebele, Tonga) plus a few hours weekly in English. But they resolutely fight off local pressure to add 40 other African dialects to the programming. Every night of the year, however, they give their forgetful listeners an indispensable service in CABS's sign-off announcement, always clearly enunciated twice: "You must now turn your radio set off!" Otherwise 60,000 set batteries might well drain all night. By the following...