Word: tanganyika
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...actually two countries, which the natives call Rwanda and Burundi. Once a part of German East Africa, they were mandated to Belgium after World War I and administered as a single trust territory. Slightly larger than Maine, they lie along the slopes of the Mountains of the Moon between Tanganyika, Uganda and the Congo. For 40 years, Belgium tampered little with the feudal tribal structure of either territory and ruled through the giant-sized Watutsi tribe (average height...
...loose, twelve-nation union largely consisting of former French West African colonies. It is hampered by the reluctance of richer members such as Cameroun and Gabon to get too involved with such poorer sisters as Chad. The other African common market is a bloc of four East African states-Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda and Zanzibar-that are in various stages of emerging from British colonialism...
Pusey praised Harvard's "Project Tanganyika," which sent about two dozen qualified teachers into Africa last summer. And he described students' performance in recent Combined Charities Drives as "impressive and heartening...
Praises Project Tanganyika...
...Government major, Goldmark spent last summer teaching elementary school in Tanganyika...