Word: tanganyika
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John Gerhart, a CRIMSON editor, worked in Dar es Salaam last year as a member of PBH's Project Tanganyika...
...going back is probably impossible, Dar es Sallaam is not necessarily the end of the road for the refugee. If he is intelligent, the refugee can enter the school being run in Dar by the African American Institute and staffed by members of the Phillips Brooks House-sponsored Project Tanganyika. If he has a secondary school education, he can qualify in a few months for a scholarship, either to the U.S., to another African country, or to a nation of the Communist bloc, especially China, Czechoslovakia, or the Soviet Usion. A number of the refugees become "freedom fighters...
...members of Project Tanganyika--the teaching program sponsored by the Phillips Brooks House--oranized the school in the summer of 1962 at the urging of Dr. Eduardo Mondlane the President of the Mozambique Liberation Front. At first classes were held in a refugee camp south of the city; then they were moved to one of the houses nearby. In January, 1963, the African American Institute took over direction of the school, and the Institute is now building a permanent site for the school...
Other Mozambicans have lived for some time in Tanganyika or the Rhodesias where their parents had moved looking for work. Two of the students had been among the handful of Africans who managed to complete secondary school in Mozambique last year. Though honored by the Portuguese as showpieces of the educational system, both boys left the country within a month after receiving their diplomas and quickly worked their way north to Tanganyika. They are presently on scholarships at Rochester University in New York...
...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...