Word: swahili
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...most Americans last week were storing away Christmas memories for another year, a growing number of blacks were opening gifts-and affirming political principles-at parties and feasts observing a new festival named Kwanza. Drawing heavily on traditional African harvest festivals for inspiration, Kwanza (which means "first fruits" in Swahili) is a seven-day ceremony that winds up with a lavish celebration on New Year...
...Shedd began to decentralize the large (285,000 students) and cumbersome system by giving principals greater autonomy. At the same time, he streamlined administrative procedures. In the wake of the 1967 protests, Shedd installed one of the nation's first large-scale black studies programs, including courses in Swahili. Shedd's best-known project was developing the Parkway "school without walls" (TIME, March 23, 1970), which tried to combat student restlessness by holding classes throughout the city, in museums, factories and even in Rizzo's police academy. Morale in the system rose; in a number of schools...
VITA! VITA!" the pretty blonde shouted in Swahili. "Attack! Attack!" There, surrounded by hundreds of Kenyan schoolboys, was Britain's Princess Anne, cheering on the home side's soccer team. The princess, on a fortnight's tour of Kenya with her brother Prince Charles, was visiting a Nairobi home for 1,000 destitute and orphaned African boys. The school is supported by the Save the Children Fund, of which the princess is president...
...again and again a decade ago. The stadium would fill with cheering Africans. The band would play a tattoo. Schoolchildren would scramble forward to slay papier-mâché dragons representing poverty, ignorance and disease. Fireworks would ignite the southern sky. At midnight a throaty cheer of "Uhuru!" (Swahili for "freedom") or "Kwacha!" ("dawn" in Bemba and Nyanja) would shake the ground as the flag of the colonial power was lowered and the colors of the new nation raised...
...symbolizes blood shed by blacks in the war and in race conflict in America. A black foreground represents the face of black culture. At the center are crossed spears and shield, meaning "violence if necessary," surrounded by a wreath, symbolizing "peace if possible." The flag bears a legend in Swahili, meaning "My fear...