Word: niger
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...poor to have a capital of its own: it shared Saint-Louis, which was the capital of black Senegal. In Dahomey, which means "The Belly of Dan," after an ancient king who ate his victims, the fiercest warriors were once the Amazons. And among the Tuareg tribes of the Niger, it is the men, not the women, who wear veils...
...only four towns of 3,000 people or more, is a vast desert whose rich deposits of iron and copper ore are still to be exploited. The Upper Volta has as many livestock as people, and its workers must migrate from the territory each year to find jobs. Niger, the largest territory, and Dahomey, the smallest, barely manage to survive...
Throughout these destitute lands, the French have made isolated but highly promising efforts at development. In the French Sudan, the TVA-like Office du Niger, located in a tree-shaded and prosperous town that was once just a cluster of huts, has built a $21 million dam across the Niger River, on top of which lie the tracks for the still nonexistent Trans-Saharan Railroad (the railroad station is currently being used as an office building). The Office has reclaimed more than 108,000 acres of desert where cotton and rice can now grow, hopes eventually to have...
Guinea, the home of the headwaters of the Senegal and Niger Rivers, has plunged into the most ambitious industrial program in French West Africa. Touré has abolished the corruption-ridden French office of cantonal chiefs, is now training a cadre of 106 administrative experts to run the land. French, Swiss, Canadian and U.S. money is backing a $200 million bauxite development program. "In five years," says one French official, "Guinea will be unrecognizable...
...East Africa have six more. The policy of advancing native Africans to the episcopate is not a recent Anglican practice; the first such was a rescued slave, Samuel Adjai Crowther, who was consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury in Canterbury Cathedral in 1864. He served as bishop on the Niger for 27 years...