Word: swahili
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...primary goal is to create a new Negro self-image, based not on white middleclass stereotypes, but on the Negro's African heritage. When I went in to see him, he was wearing a green buba--a long shirt of African origin--speaking into the telephone in Swahili...
...This year two teachers are going to Bechuanaland; at least four will be teaching refugees from Mozambique and Rhodesia. Draft boards, however, grant deferment to V.T.A. as well as Peace Corps members; only two of fifteen members this year have been refused. V.T.A. teachers are presently training by studying Swahili and teaching English to Puerto Ricans in Boston's South...
Ever since Kenya became independent two years ago, Jomo Kenyatta's rallying cry has been harambee -Swahili for "all pull together." Most Kenyans have been quite happy to put aside their tribal and political rivalries and give pulling together a try. The notable exception: Oginga Odinga, 54, Vice President of the nation, deputy president of its only political party and leader of the powerful Luo tribe. A wealthy and ambitious leftist who disagrees violently with Kenyatta's moderate policies, Odinga has spent the past two years trying to pull his own government apart...
...lessons of 50 minutes each, carried by closed-circuit television. By such tactics, Mexico has managed to cut its illiteracy rate from 58% in 1940 to 37% today. Tanzania is leading 500,000 students through 90-minute classes three times a week for five months to become literate in Swahili. Iran, with an 80% rate in rural areas, drafts high school graduates into an "army of knowledge" for 14 months to teach in villages. Some 15,000 such "sergeant-teachers" have taught 300,000 children and 35,000 adults to read...
Mercenary Commander Mike Hoare has been ordered to attack Fizi as soon as he has trained his latest batch of white recruits, but it will be no easy task. Advised by a dozen Castro Cubans (who carry Spanish-Swahili dictionaries), the rebels have turned the Fizi region into a fortress of sorts. They are well equipped. Their every need is supplied by a fleet of rebel-operated "fishing" boats-which make regular runs across Lake Tanganyika between Fizi and Kigoma...