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...included Guinea's Sékou Touré, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, Ivory Coast's Félix Houphouet-Boigny, Nigeria's Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Kenya's Tom Mboya, Nyasaland's Kanyama Chiume, Southern Rhodesia's Joshua Nkomo, and most recently Tanganyika's Julius Nyerere...
...Never Know. In Tanganyika, at the foot of snow-crowned Mount Kilimanjaro late last month, he faced an audience of 25,000, their heads protected from the scorching sun by black umbrellas. The mountain and the snow on it, said Billy, were gifts of God, whose throne is much higher. At the crucial moment, when he asked the listeners to raise their hands to witness their "decisions," no one did. Undaunted, Billy gently asked again through his Swahili interpreter: "You have not understood what I said. Listen carefully: you have never repented of your sins. You are willing...
John Gunther's High Road (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). Jack the tripper is off this time to Tanganyika...
Bishop Laurian Rugambwa, 47, was born a member of the Bahaya tribe in Tanganyika Territory, scion of a long line of chiefs, and he became a Christian, along with his father and mother, at the age of eight. Trained by the Roman Catholic missionary White Fathers, he was ordained a priest in 1943, and served as assistant pastor at the Rubya mission for five years before going to Rome for special studies in canon law at the Gregorian University. In 1951 he was named the first bishop of the new diocese of Rutabo in Tanganyika, became the youngest and most...
...preached from his modest bungalow in Dar es Salaam. But his goal never changed: "The African must and will rule. Our unity is our weapon." Relieved to find a leader with such common sense, the British in December agreed to "responsible" government with an African legislative majority in Tanganyika for a four-year transition period, after which the Africans will almost certainly take over entirely. "Now," says Nyerere, slated to be the first Prime Minister, "our task really begins. We have changed our cry from 'Uhuru' to 'Uhnru Na Kazi'-freedom and work...