Word: uganda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entire war in North China. Against it the Japanese have successively hurled three major campaigns and many little ones-all of which have blown up like light bulbs thrown against a wall. Because the province is as remote and vague to most U. S. readers as darkest Uganda, its news has either been undiscovered or shoved out of sight. But last week there reached the U. S. the report of a young visitor to this major theatre of China's struggle-first white man to visit parts of the province in 15 years. What he wrote was enough...
...Sunday, in St. Peter's, Pius XII gave practical proof of his views on racism. He consecrated a dozen white, black, yellow and brown bishops and vicars apostolic,* for services in Africa and the Orient. One vicar apostolic, Monsignor Joseph Kiwanuka of Uganda, was the Church's first consecrated Negro since 1875 (when a Negro was bishop of Portland, Me.). The others: a Chinese, a Madagascarian, an Indian, two Americans, six Europeans...
This week the Duke of Gloucester breaks sod on a hill outside Kampala, capital of Buganda, principal kingdom of Uganda, for the stone buildings of Makerere College for Higher Education, first all-Negro university in East Africa. Recommended by a Royal Commission on Higher Education, the university will speak English, will teach the arts, science, agriculture, medicine, education, veterinary science and engineering to bright young blacks of Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika and Zanzibar...
...Africa, the Commission collected fine specimens of big game and some damaging facts about Britain's ''trusteeship'' of backward peoples. Example: Government provision of primary schools is so inadequate that of the 720,000 children between the ages of five and 15 in Uganda, only one-third attend school, and of this number more than five-sixths attend mission schools. The sun may never set on Britain's empire, but it has disgracefully few native minds to which the light of education penetrates...
...high point of his African mountain climbing was a six-day ascent of the mysterious Ruwenzori Range in Uganda, anciently called the Mountains of the Moon, which had been climbed successfully only twice since Stanley discovered them in 1888. One of the eeriest regions known to man, the upper slopes of Ruwenzori "comprise a world of their own-a weird country of moss, bog, rotting vegetation, and mud, on which flourish grotesque plants that seem to have survived from a past era . . . and make more desirable the fresh purity of the snows which lie beyond." In the mists of Ruwenzori...