Word: swahili
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Twenty-one students selected to teach English in Africa this summer are for their assignments by taking a special course in Swahili and doing extensive in Tanganyikan economics, history, politics, and culture...
Collections of sermons, except those by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, usually sell about as well as a Swahili grammar. But Alfred A. Knopf has published such a collection, the difference being that the sermons deal with the theology of politics, and were composed with aphoristic brilliance by the late Albert Camus. The author called them actuelles, or occasional pieces, and he thought as highly of them as he did of his novels, plays and philosophical essays. He may well have been right...
...diplomatic recognition as the "legitimate" government of the Congo. But even if Gizenga gets support from abroad, he is a poor stand-in for Lumumba as a national leader. He has little political presence, is a faltering orator who does not even speak the Eastern province's Swahili...
...Swahili course was proposed in conjunction with Project Tanganyika. Since the project will require that the 26 students going to Tanganyika all speak Swahili, the nation's native language, Phillip C. Gulliver, an associate professor of Anthropology at Boston University and former Government anthropologist for Tanganyika, was selected to teach the course...
...Swahili will nevertheless be offered this Spring as a non-credit course, although no one is yet certain whether it will be given here or at Boston University. Besides members of Project Tanganyika, students who plan to go on Crossroads Africa--and some who plan to stay in the United States--intend to take the course...