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Black Film could supplement the efforts of Black Theater by filming such plays and making the tapes available to black groups around the country. Bourne himself mentioned just such a project Friday night. He has created a Black Film production company called Chamba (Swahili for "images-of-the-eye"), in part to act as a clearing house for Black Films...
...credit Swahili course offered by volunteer teachers for Africa will hold its first meeting at 7:30 p.m. tonight at Phillips Brooks House. All interested persons are welcome. Call Don Shepard, X526, for information...
Freedom Annex now has a curriculum that many college black-studies departments would envy. Twelve salaried and accredited teachers offer 85 students courses in black history, Swahili, black literature, black art and drama and community organization. Students spend half their day at Eastern High in the study of math and the sciences, half at the Annex. Though the Annex gives no grades, just pass-fail ratings, the high school gives full credit for Annex classes, and Eastern's Principal William Saunders backs the student-run school enthusiastically. He is particularly impressed by the lack of disciplinary problems...
...help more natives prepare for business, Kenya Shell Ltd. and the country's Ministry of Education have put together an illustrated book in Swahili, with English translations, on rudimentary business practices. Featured are Mr. Shida, a bumbling, unsuccessful shopkeeper, and Mr. Ali, a progressive, flourishing entrepreneur. Mr. Shida, for example; is in serious trouble because his debtors are slow to pay him. Mr. Ali, by contrast, avoids that kind of bind by shrewdly refusing to give credit. A typical lesson deals with the display of merchandise in shop windows: "One of these cakes has flies on it. The other...
Soul Food and Shirts. In Watts and other mostly Negro areas of Los Angeles, "Operation Bootstrap," sponsored by private and corporate donations, operates a dozen storefront schools, giving instruction in such courses as computer programming, Swahili, and microwelding. "We consider everything that goes on here a school," says Co-Founder Lou Smith. Aimed primarily at preparing dropouts for available jobs rather than college, the program helps pay its own way by mining the talents of the students, who have published books on Afro-American history and designed African-style shirts and dresses that were featured at a fashion show...