Word: swahili
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Members of Volunteer Teachers for Africa have undertaken an extensive orientation program, including three hours a week of Swahill lessons. Swahili, a mixture of Arabic and the Bantu languages, is the official language of Tanzania, as well as a lingua-franca spoken extensively throughout East Africa...
Monday, February 15 THE DINAH SHORE SPECIAL (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Dinah and Harry Belafonte salute the Peace Corps in a program featuring songs in Swahili, Hindi and Tagalog...
...Salaam than he called in U.S. Ambassador William Leonhart and informed him that two American officials were "engaged in subversive activities" and would have to leave the country in 24 hours. One was Embassy Counselor Robert Gordon. The other was U.S. Consul in Zanzibar Frank Carlucci, a hustling, Swahili-speaking troubleshooter who had seemed to be getting on well with Nyerere (TIME...
...island runs on Swahili time-a full six hours behind the mainland-hence it was still morning on the afternoon Nyerere landed. Vice President Karume is still known as President on Zanzibar. Island officials obstinately control their own customs and immigration affairs, maintain and jealously censor an independent cable and wireless network, and conduct external trade and finances through their own ministries. The tough, green-uniformed troopers of the People's Liberation Army-composed mostly of Communist-leaning hoodlums who had led the anti-Arab coup-still stalk the streets armed with Russian burp guns. They are backed...
...components are having trouble balancing each other, Nyerere and Karume apparently are trying hard to balance East and West. In the receiving line welcoming Nyerere, U.S. Consul General Frank Carlucci was neatly played off against East German Ambassador Guenther Fritsch. To demonstrate their nonalignment, Nyerere and Karume spoke Swahili with both the American and the East German; Carlucci answered them fluently, while Fritsch, wincing behind his sunglasses, used an interpreter...