Word: swahili
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been forced to woo players and coaches away from foreign teams with salaries up to $35,000. The Los Angeles Toros boast 15 players from 13 countries. Which creates still another problem: language. On the theory that "Pass me the ball!" in Spanish just might be fighting words in Swahili, most National League teams have adopted English as their "official" language, and the Pittsburgh Phantoms have temporarily farmed out their players to Berlitz...
Karenga speaks of seven measures which could lead to Freedom City, such as Umoja (Unity), Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility), and so on--all in Swahili. He emphasizes the need for basing all action on tradition as a precondition for freedom...
...primary goal is to create a new Negro self-image, based not on white middleclass stereotypes, but on the Negro's African heritage. When I went in to see him, he was wearing a green buba--a long shirt of African origin--speaking into the telephone in Swahili...
...This year two teachers are going to Bechuanaland; at least four will be teaching refugees from Mozambique and Rhodesia. Draft boards, however, grant deferment to V.T.A. as well as Peace Corps members; only two of fifteen members this year have been refused. V.T.A. teachers are presently training by studying Swahili and teaching English to Puerto Ricans in Boston's South...
Ever since Kenya became independent two years ago, Jomo Kenyatta's rallying cry has been harambee -Swahili for "all pull together." Most Kenyans have been quite happy to put aside their tribal and political rivalries and give pulling together a try. The notable exception: Oginga Odinga, 54, Vice President of the nation, deputy president of its only political party and leader of the powerful Luo tribe. A wealthy and ambitious leftist who disagrees violently with Kenyatta's moderate policies, Odinga has spent the past two years trying to pull his own government apart...