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Kivukoni College was founded at the time of Tanganyika's independence in 1961 to help train men moving into positions of leadership in the country at the local level. It stands across the harbor from Dar es Salaam, accessible only by ferry or five circuitous miles of dirt road. I crossed the ferry for the first time in June, 1964, a little bedraggled from a 24-hour bus trip from Nairobi to Dar es Salaam and very curious about what it would be like to teach there. A man in a Volkswagen, who turned out to be a West German...
...Going on Project Tanganyika...
...Volunteer Teachers for Africa program has been enlarged from 12 to 16 participants, project director Gordon R. Kehler '67 said yesterday. The volunteers will teach English, as well as domestic science and hygiene, in Tanganyika...
Some countries have been tougher on whites than others. Prime examples: Tanzania, which as Tanganyika once had 22,700 whites, now has 17,000. Last year Julius Nyerere's oft-muddled government confiscated 34,000 acres of rich white-owned farmlands merely to assuage African resentments (and perhaps to undercut Communist pressures from within the government). But even at that, Tanzania's Agriculture Minister is a moderate ex-colonial, Derek Bryceson, who was overwhelmingly re-elected last month as a Government Party stalwart. Salaam is as benign and friendly a city as a European could hope to visit...
When the fighting against the Congolese rebels tailed off six months ago, Premier Moise Tshombe knew the war was not fully won. His troops had never dared attack the Simbas' mountain redoubt of Fizi, located high above Lake Tanganyika and reachable only by roads so narrow and precipitous that they are impassable during rainstorms. Led by Castro Cuban advisers and supplied with Red Chinese arms ferried in from Tanzania to the lake port of Baraka, the 5,500-man ragtag rebel force was roaming at will through a 200-sq.-mi. patch of the eastern Congo, cutting roads, murdering...