Word: zanzibar
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...Zanzibar, to the north, is like neither Madagascar nor Tanganyika. Once the major headquarters for Arab slavers, it is a lady island, pungent with the odor of cloves and the glamour of Araby. Tourists can ride the streets in dilapidated rickshas, visit the old Arab waterfront fort and the harbor, where old wooden dhows with odd-looking lateen sails load up for trips to the mainland. They can buy French perfumes, Indian craft jewelry, or copies of the famed, huge oaken "elephant doors," which are covered with spikes to keep elephants from leaning on them. They are an unusual curio...
...Manhattan, for last December's cover story on Nigeria's Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Balewa. It was based on a 30,000-word file from James Bell and written by Edward Hughes, who like Bell has crisscrossed Africa from Cairo to the Cape, and from Abidjan to Zanzibar as a TIME correspondent...
Thomas Jefferson once said that France was every American's second country. The sentiment has a strangely parochial sound to the contemporary U.S. ear. Since World War II, every American's second country has been the world. In Athens and Tokyo, in Addis Ababa and Zanzibar, there is sure to be an American-quiet or noisy, ugly or handsome, but always as insatiably curious as his camera...
...State Department announced over the weekend a plan to send about 150 young American teachers to four British territories in East Africa, as a first step in a national Youth Corps. The teachers will be sent to Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika, and Zanzibar to help overcome "critical teacher shortages," the Department said...
...Zanzibar, where 75% of the world's fragrant clove supply is bought and sold, the British protectorate was pushing ahead to hold elections for a new government that will govern its own internal affairs. Kenyan and Ugandan politicians were already campaigning for their elections, which will enable both territories to claim the rights of self-government. There was a minor check a fortnight ago when Buganda's Frederick ("King Freddie") Mutesa II seceded from Uganda and declared Buganda's independence. Nobody noticed much change. Yawned one official: "The Baganda seem to be pretending that they have independence...