Word: swahili
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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National events impinged up on 1961 in many different ways. Most spectacular may have been President Kennedy's proposal for a Peace Corps, which met an immediately favorable response. Before the Federal project started, PBH announced "Project Tanganyika" to train students in Swahili and permit them to teach for a summer. Eastern Nigeria officials talked with Dean Monro, in an effort to obtain teachers. The popularity of the Corps scheme was manifested first in a poll circulated among 1961 members, and secondly by the number of students planning to visit Africa...
...boys, Land Rovers, guns, white hunters, impeccable service-right down to fine English china, antique silver, iced martinis and nine-course meals (lobster remoulade, filet mignon. etc., etc.). Cordon Rouge '49, and a snifter of brandy. As in all East Africa, travelers can quickly pick up enough Swahili to get along on the hunt, e.g., Memsahib nakwisha piga nyati; tia chini ya kitanda ("My wife has shot a buffalo; put it under the bed"), or Hapana taka piga simba leo. Tengeneza chandarua ya mbu na tafadhali ngoja kidogo nge ("I do not want to shoot a lion today...
Selected from over 100 applicants, the students began preparing for the trip early this term. Since Swahili is an official language of Tanganyika, the group has studied it intensively under the direction of a British anthropologist teaching at Boston University...
...Communist is a liar. I went to Russia for an education. I also lived in England for a long time, but that doesn't mean I became an Englishman!" In fact he was all for keeping the cold war out of Africa. "I recall an old Swahili proverb," said Kenyatta. " 'When two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.' If East and West fight over Africa, only the Africans will suffer...
CAIRO last week wore the synthetic festive air peculiar to Nasserism. In English, Arabic and Swahili, signs and pennants screamed: "Death to Lumumba's Murderers"; "French Killers, Hands Off Algiers"; "Freedom. Freedom to Kenyatta." As the smiling U.A.R. President arrived at Cairo University auditorium to welcome delegates to the grandiosely named third All-Africa People's Conference, phalanxes of young Arabs clapped rhythmically and shouted "Nas-ser." Framed against a huge black map of Africa with a red flaming torch thrust into its Congo heart, Nasser told the assembled delegates: "Nothing is more touching or close...