Word: swahili
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tools of the Trade. Symon Thuita is an M'ganga, which is Swahili for witch doctor, and he is one of Kenya's best. His adept handling of the Nairobi nightmare case marked another step forward for the fledgling A.P.A. Its ultimate aim is to mold the new republic's 6,000 witch doctors, as well as 100 or more Indian ayurvedics, or herbalists, into a kind of copy of the American Medical Association which will carry black magic into the 20th century, just as Africa's politicians have done for tribalism...
...little men with paintpots and newly issued brushes, their lips moving soundlessly with the memorized slogans: "Yankee go Home" or "Down with the Neocolonialists and Imperialists" or sometimes, when Britain is involved along with the U.S., "Bugger off, Brit!" Proficient only in the local language, be it Egyptian or Swahili, Russian or Malay, the painters are under considerable pressure. After all, if the epithet they must letter neatly on the embassy wall comes out in misspelled English, it will look bad for their country's image in the news photos published abroad...
There were plenty of screams elsewhere. As the U.S. planes kept coming and stick after stick of Belgian paratroopers popped silk over the city, Radio Stanleyville shrilled its last message: "Ciyuga! Ciyuga! Kill them all! Men, women and children. Kill them all! Have no scruples!" The Simbas (Swahili for "lions") of Rebel General Nicholas Olenga did their best to carry out the order. In the Avenue Sergeant Kitele, according to some survivors, the command to fire was given by "Major Bubu," a deaf-mute ex-boxer addicted to hemp who served as personal bodyguard to Rebel Defense Minister Gaston Soumialot...
Peking Radio immediately began transmitting the news in all major languages, including English, Quechua and Swahili, that it had become the world's fifth atomic "power," demanded an immediate worldwide summit conference to "discuss the complete prohibition and thorough destruction of nuclear weapons." Added Peking smugly: "The mastering of the nuclear weapon by China is a great encouragement to the revolutionary peoples of the world." Years & Efforts. The U.S. did not quite enter into that spirit. Said President Johnson: "This explosion has been fully taken into account in planning our own defense program and nuclear capability. Its military significance...
...Congo. Their earlier recording of Luba folk songs and a Mass won them a large international audience. Somehow their leader, Franciscan Father Guido Haazen, makes them sing together with precision and yet seem to be blithely improvising. Theirs are songs for working, praying, playing and dancing. One, sung in Swahili, begins: "Trouble. Sister, trouble, Father; the Europeans are arriving in Kenya from the airplane...