Word: swahili
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...roommates. Carpenter's room has a warm and cosy ambience.Maybe it's the large farmed photos of smiling people Carpenter met on his summer of '92 trip to Kenya. Or perhapss it's the African cotton wrap in rich primary colors-featuring dancing yellow pineapples and a thought-provoking Swahili proverb that hangs across one wall. Carpenter tell me Kenya is a special place for him, because of its people...
...NdegeOcello (whose name means "free like a bird" in Swahili) and her career are starting to take wing with the release of her debut album, Plantation Lullabies. "A plantation can be your job, your marriage, anyplace where you don't feel free," she says, explaining the title. "Lullabies are songs that soothe little children to sleep, but they can also be empowering." She has a new video on MTV (she is bald in the arty black and white clip; she has since let her hair grow out a bit), and a Rolling Stone critics' poll chose NdegeOcello...
...preparing to fight World War III, the Pentagon is planning to deal with what the charts call MRCS, or major regional conflicts. The National Security Agency, which eavesdrops on real and potential enemies around the world, is retiring Russian speakers to make room for specialists in Farsi and Swahili. One of the few categories of procurement that are growing is air- and sea-lift transports so the U.S. can rush troops to the scene of an MRC -- or perhaps to two scenes at once. For example, North Korea might attack the South just when the U.S. is preoccupied with...
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Kwanzaa is patterned after various African agricultural festivals, and the name derives from the Swahili word for first fruit of the harvest. It was created by Maulana Karenga, a black-studies professor at California State University, Long Beach. The purpose of the holiday, he says, is to help black people "rescue and reconstruct our history and culture and shape them in our own image...