Word: francistown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hundred thousand Ba-mangwato tribesmen whose kraals spread over 40,000 sq. mi. of Bechuanaland, Seretse Khama, 34, was still the chief. Last week, as a charter aircraft flew Seretse back from six years' exile in Britain, the Bamangwato, with their wives and children, crowded the airport at Francistown by the thousands. Many had trekked for days through the parched African bush to be there in time for his arrival. "Our chief is home again!" they screamed as the aircraft touched down and the returning exile emerged to greet his Uncle Tshekedi, whose complaints about Seretse's marriage...