Word: baobab
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...proliferating herds of hippo, buffalo and giraffe add to the problem, and as a result, African game parks are badly overgrazed and their enormous herds are faced with famine. Tsavo's hungry elephants have uprooted entire forests of thorn trees, turned giant baobab trees into twisted wreckage in their search for edible shrubbery. Parts of the Zambezi Valley, according to one conservationist, "look as though an atom bomb had exploded in the area...
...party leaders like Nyerere and Nkrumah insist that they cannot afford the luxury of dissent and opposition. Many argue, by way of rationalization, that the one-party state is a modern adaptation of traditional tribal society, in which the individual was free to ex press his viewpoint under the baobab tree, but had to accept the tribe's (or chief's) decision once rendered. And indeed a certain amount of discussion filters up from the ranks to the top in parties like TANU, even in Nkrumah's monolithic Convention People's Party. Osagyefo recently told...
Tarquin Olivier, 22-year-old son of Cinemactor Sir Laurence, uncovered a graceful "D.L."-which the 19th century Kilroy had mentioned in his journal-carved in the trunk of a giant baobab tree. Doubtful at first, African scholars examined photographs of the find, agreed that the presumption was correct...
...diseases, injuries and causes of death, including 125 methods of suicide. But in those parts of the world that are not used to statistics, tabulating figures on who died of what has proved difficult. What good, for instance, is a death certificate written on the bark of a baobab tree along a branch of the upper Zambezi? So WHO decided that what it needed was something like the U.S. income-tax collector's 1040-A-a short form that nobody...