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...UHURU (555 pp.)-Robert Ruark-McGraw-Hill...
...latest novel, like the earlier Something of Value, completely muddies the complex events taking place in Africa. Ruark obviously considers black Africans unfit to govern themselves. In Uhuru, Africans are portrayed as civilized on the surface but ready at the first opportunity to revert to savagery. Ruark's sympathies are all with the white settlers. On page after page, the whites denounce "nigs," "coons," "wogs" and even "Chinks" until the vituperation becomes a bore...
...Uhuru reads like one long adolescent tirade against the black man in Africa. Not only that, but Ruark exalts the very thing he most fears from the liberated African: irrational violence. This book is a paean...
...Salaam, which means "haven of peace" in Arabic, was a haven of tumultuous confusion last week during celebrations marking uhuru (freedom). A British-administered United Nations trusteeship for 15 years, Tanganyika became an independent nation...
Hundreds of thousands of colored light bulbs were strung all over the capital, and the streets were illuminated by graceful arches in the shape of giraffes, Tanganyika's national symbol. At the uhuru ceremonies in the National Stadium, massed bands serenaded Prime Minister Julius Nyerere, Great Britain's Prince Philip, and dignitaries from 65 nations...