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Beginning with the summer of 1964, all members of PBH's Project Tanganyika must participate for an entire year; previously, they could choose to teach in Tanganyika either for the summer or for the full year. The total number of participants will remain the same...
Alison Liebhafsky '64, director of the current program, feels the change may improve Project Tanganyika in several ways. First, because of the high initial cost of transportation and training, it will be more efficient to send all teachers for an entire year. Second, this increased efficiency may encourage corporation support...
When Project Tanganyika was initiated in the summer of 1961, the entire group of 20 students worked in Tanganyika for the summer only. The following year, however, some of the students remained for the entire year. Many of Project Tanganyika's alumni have recommended that the program be continued exclusively on a year-long basis...
...biggest industrialists in East Africa are neither black natives nor British settlers but four enterprising Indians-the Madhvani brothers-who run 18 companies worth $30 million in Uganda, Kenya and Tanganyika. They stand at the peak of a bulging settlement of clever, clannish Indians, who came to work on the railroads at the turn of the century and stayed to do well in commerce. Unlike most of the clan, now fearful of the future under independent African rule and sending their savings abroad, the young Madhvanis are determined to remain and are vigorously expanding to prove it. Says the senior...
...drinks or washes. With companies that produce sugar, shortening, toffee, tea, soap, bottles and Nile brand beer, as well as a 20,000-acre sugar plantation in Uganda that is their biggest holding, the brothers last year earned $1,400,000 on sales of $14 million. This year in Tanganyika, they fired up East Africa's first steel rolling mill and are building a brewery and candy factory. In Uganda, judiciously allied with the government's development corporation, they will also build a bag factory and eventually pulp and paper mills, and they have longer-range plans...