Word: swahili
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...signs of other vehicles or of soldiers. However, we soon reached a bridge leading to the town's center and ran directly into a roadblock of soldiers who, pointing guns at our tires and faces, quickly persuaded us to return the way we had come. Though not proficient in Swahili, we found that our comprehension was almost perfect...
...Brigadier Patrick Sholto Douglas, the deposed commander of the Tanganyika Rifles, the commandos burst through the main gate and began hurling "Thunder Flashes"-noisy firecrackers used in training to simulate mass attack. Douglas shouted in Swahili for the 800 mutineers to surrender. When they refused, the commandos slammed a 3.5-in. bazooka rocket through the barracks, blasting out windows and peeling back most of the roof. Three Riflemen were killed and 20 wounded, while 400 were captured. The rest, many in pajamas or underwear, headed for the bush. Julius Nyerere was back in power however tentatively. But his country would...
...location filming Mister Moses in Naivasha, Kenya, Carroll Baker, 32, was cutting quite a swath among the Masai tribe. The script called for native children to sing a Swahili Silent Night, but none of them spoke the language. So Actress Baker learned the Swahili and taught the kids. "At the end of the first day's lesson," she reported, "they were so good I gave them candy and soda pop. In return they introduced me to their favorite drink, a mixture of blood and milk." And Carroll drank it down. She was such a lady that the local Masai...
...dream of independence has many names. In Togo it is ablodé, in Rwanda ubwigenge, in Swahili-speaking East Africa uhuru. But by any name the dream often becomes a horrible nightmare in the execution...
...babbled on, quieter but more dangerous men were busy. Back from the mainland, where they had gone in case the coup failed, rushed the people who would lead "the people": Afro-Shirazi Party Boss Abeid Karume and Umma's Abdul Rahman Mohammed, better known as "Babu" (Swahili for father). Karume, a burly, bull-necked labor leader who leans to Moscow (and therefore may be the group's moderate), became President, while Babu, whose experience in foreign affairs includes a recent trip to Peking, was named Foreign Minister. Vice President is Kassim Hanga, a bitter Zanzibari with a Russian...