Word: uhuru
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Author Robert Ruark (Something of Value, Uhuru) died last July at the age of 49, and in this big, brawling blatantly autobiographical novel, completed a few months before his death, he has composed his own obituary...
...Howard and was given a daily (later thrice weekly) column eventually syndicated in 104 U.S. newspapers, in which he stated his tough-guy opinions on everything from women's fashions to modern art, reserving his most abrasive insights for Africa in two race-baiting bestsellers (Something of Value, Uhuru) about Kenya, from which he was then barred in 1962; of internal hemorrhages; in London...
...Africa as bananas, but last week Kenya outdid itself with its second in a year. For all practical purposes, the former British colony gained independence last year, but to facilitate administrative changeovers, Britain retained symbolic sovereignty by making Kenya a dominion. Last week saw the progression from mere uhuru (freedom) to jamhuri (republic). Though Kenya remains a member of the Commonwealth, Jomo Kenyatta, who had been Prime Minister, duly changed his title to President, replacing Queen Elizabeth as head of state...
...except under a new constitution that will give the now suppressed black majority a larger share in the government. Southern Rhodesia's white-supremacist Prime Minister Ian Smith rejects the idea and threatens to declare independence from Britain unilaterally, a move his critics refer to as "white uhuru...
...said, was dead. For this bow to racial equality, he was immediately and savagely denounced by trade union leaders in Dar. Silent but more ominous was the reaction of the Tanganyika Rifles, the nation's 1,600-man army. Still commanded by British officers two years after uhuru, the African soldiers interpreted de-Africanization to mean that they would not gain the promotions they had been promised. Locked and loaded with resentment, the Rifles needed only a touch to unload through the muzzle. Four days later, on the tiny island of Zanzibar, 221 miles off the East African coast...