Word: tanganyika
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...first big challenge, as he sought to guide the African colony of Kenya along the road to full democratic nationhood. The challenge is urgent, since Kenya will soon be entirely surrounded by African-controlled states. Sudan and Ethiopia to the north are already independent; Somalia to the east, Tanganyika to the south, and Uganda in the west come under African control this year or next...
...year 1960 may be the most important period in Africa's history," said Baptist Graham just before he took off last week on a preaching tour that will take him to 16 cities and nine countries-Liberia, Ghana, Nigeria, Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia, Tanganyika, Kenya, Ruanda Urundi, Ethiopia (South Africa is not included because Billy Graham insists on unsegregated meetings, which are illegal in the land of apartheid). Continued Billy: "We believe God directed the launching of this undertaking at the opening of Africa's year of destiny. We hope to be able to make some contribution...
...delegation of government leaders to Hawaii to see how U.S. methods produce 88 tons of sugar cane per acre (five times the Cuban average). Sugar International thinks that opportunities to set up new sugar industries are virtually unlimited, is studying prospects in Jordan, Ghana, Kenya, Angola, Tanganyika and Uganda...
...Manyara, Tanganyika, enraged over a fight with her husband, a woman tried to commit suicide by offering herself to a lion, was airily dismissed by the lion with a wave of his paw as he continued to munch on a freshly slain zebra...
...this year (TIME, Sept. 21), his clincher was that Kenya's Royal Technical College grants only sub-university diplomas. Kenyans with a yen for more than a technical degree must go to Uganda's Makerere College, or somehow find their way overseas. So, too, must students from Tanganyika, third major country comprising British East Africa (pop. 21 million), an area one-fifth as big as the fifty United States. Due soon: a full-fledged University of East Africa, combining Makerere, the Royal College and a new branch at Morogoro, Tanganyika. But the merger may take five years...