Word: zambezi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second largest group of students comes from Southwest Africa and is largely Afrikaans-speaking. To get to Tanganyika, these students journeyed over three thousand miles, crossing the Kalahari desert into Bechuanaland and the Zambezi River into Northern Rhodesia. This is the same "freedom route" that is followed by most of the refugees leaving South Africa. It is a dangerous route to travel; many of the fleeing students are intercepted by the South African police before getting out of South or Southwest Africa. If caught, the refugees face prison terms regardless of whether or not they are "guilty" of other offenses...
...leonine wind prowled through the saw grass, rattling the few gaunt thornbushes that dot the banks of the Zambezi River near Kasane. Potbellied kids squatted in the shade of round, white-walled mud huts while their mothers hacked with mattocks in the maize patches. Down at the riverbank, "Captain" Nelson Maibolwa puttered with twin 18-h.p. outboard motors slung on a ramshackle wood-and-iron pontoon. Behind him flowed the sun-dappled, grey-green Zambezi, where crocodiles, hippos and shoals of saber-toothed tiger-fish eternally wait their prey. There came the sound of a laboring truck engine, and brawny...
...this is to be a dictator, make the most of it!" Then his followers set fire to a coffin representing the federation and the ashes were thrown into the Shire River, which, in the words of the Malawi News, "will carry the relics down to the Zambezi River, which is saturated with the tears of Welensky and the other settlers...
...able to tell the difference. The Northern Rhodesian blacks already have threatened to sever economic ties unless Southern Rhodesia broadens its voting franchise and releases the African nationalists who have been placed under restriction. Otherwise, cried Nationalist Leader Kenneth Kaunda, "we will set up a tariff wall at the Zambezi and let the Southern Rhodesians eat the blankets they manufacture...
...often given to such trait slinging, and The Lonely Conqueror is no exception. The hero, Sergeant John Baako, U.S. Army, has colored skin, but beneath it lies a colorless stereotype. As Baako and his German sweetheart careen from the valley of the Rhine to the hinterlands of the Zambezi, the common indignities, predictably enough, cluster upon them like cattle flies. But when she says, "I know a lot of men who aren't half the man you are, even though their skin is the same color as mine"; and when he feels "inferior to white women only as long...