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...Exports: Sisal, cotton, coffee. Per capita income: $55. U.S. aid (1961): $4,300,000. Less than one-third of vast land is usable. Disease is rampant. Government is pro-Western, hopes for federation with Kenya and Uganda when they win independence...
Exports: Coffee, sisal, meat. Per capita income: $96. U.S. aid (1961): $2,100,000. Communist infiltration may increase with independence, but U.S. has won high esteem through famine relief. Main problems: replacing 4,000 European civil servants; settling Africans on land, healing tribal schisms...
...Argentina, the U.S. and Europe-including 30 million liters last year to France. It is the world's No. 1 producer and exporter of coffee, ranks seventh in soybeans and rice; sixth in tomatoes, sweet potatoes and peanuts; fifth in jute; fourth in tobacco and cotton; second in sisal, cane sugar, cacao, corn, oranges. Yet its agricultural technology is primitive and its export potentiality (it grows more bananas and pineapple than any other country, but exports little) is barely tapped...
Then Freddie. Overall, British East Africa is almost as big as the U.S. east of the Mississippi, has vast mineral resources (iron and columbite), a flourishing agriculture (coffee, sisal, cotton), and more than 20 million people (all black except for 400,000 Asians and Arabs, 96,000 Europeans). By Nyerere's reckoning, the federation could be functioning as a political entity by early...
...this legend came the Kikuyu deep veneration of their mountain and the earth of its endless slopes. The Kikuyu looked with bitterness on the 12,700 sq. mi. of land especially reserved for European settlers, the rich "white highlands" whence comes most of Kenya's lucrative coffee, tea, sisal and pyrethrum. The whites in rebuttal said that their highlands were never Kikuyu territory but a neglected no man's land between contending tribes, and that the Kikuyu had badly farmed their own reserve north of Nairobi, leaving it poor and eroded...