St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1961-11-10

GdlN CllS' I1S OlueE DTOIHeT, VIII
liam, Jr., who has just finished g
stint with the armed forces is now
teaching at Parker high school
Tall, husky, handsome James plans
to do graduate work in public adj
ministration at Indiana university
next year.
Miss Fatma Ali Foum left hel
home in Zanzibar while was there
to accept a scholarship at Red,
lands university in California. AL,
ready studying in the States is
Miss Miriam Ali. Both girls were
awarded scholarships by the Coun,
Gil for Educational Cooperation ir
Africa.
At sundowner in their honor
I had chance to explain my mis-
sion in Africa to three distinguish.
ed Americans: Sen, Albert Gore
of Tenn, who is chairman of the
Senate Foreign relations subcom.
mittee on Africa and Sen. Maurine
Neuberger of Oregon and Sen
Philip Hart of Michigan.
The Tanganyika contingent Of
the Peace Corps, SO young bach,
lors including Negro Jerry Par,
sons, "a year old lab techniciar
from Albany, N. Y, arrived here
and got a big welcome. My hopes
of interviewing them faded wher
I learned that they are more thar
400 miles away at Tengeru brush,
ing up on their Swahili and get,
ting otherwise oriented before EN-.
gaging on the construction of feed,
er roads. Most of them are engin,
GERS and surveyors.
However, I was able to have g
chat with New York nurse, (sht
has an MA. in Public Health,
Laura Yergan who has been en-.
gagged by WHO (World Health
Organization) to survey health
facilities in a number of African
countries and make recommends
lions for training Africans to worI
in public health programs. This il
her second stint in Africa having
served several years in Liberia il
1850 She won't be returning t.
the States until 1868.
Another veteran African travel
er whose path I continue to eros
is the African American Institute
director, E. jefferson Pat" Muir
ply. Last year he was stationed il
Nigeria Now his office is here.
Another interesting coincidence
was meeting us. Vice Consul Rob
ert w. Huddleston who used to livC
in the same block in Chicago wherC
| 7 A 1,
After meeting here at the in
vitation of Prime Minister Juliul
Nyerere, East Africa's top poiti
cal leaders will board a specia
plane and fly to India to have 1
chat with Jawaharal Nehru. Haild,
as the greatest gathering of Afri
can leaders on the Indian Ocea1
side of the continent, the group in
cludes DR.. Hastings Banda of Ny
ashland; Kenne h Kaunda Of
Northern Rhodesia; Uganda's Chief
Minister Benedicto Kewanuka and
the leader Of his opposition, Milton
Obote; Joshua Nkomo of Southern
Rhodesia; James Gichiru head OF
KANU and Ronald Ngala, chief
minister and Jomo Kenyatta, all
of Kenya and Gilman Sharriff and
Abeid Karume of Zanzibar. Oscar
Kambona, secretary general of
TANU, the ruling political party
here which Nyerere heads, issued
the invitations and when asked
why it was necessary to have so
many leaders discussing possible
East African federation said THE
bigger the better"
One of Prime Minister Nyerere's
pet projects is dam, 10 feet high
and 1900 feet long being built at
Lwankoma by 1000 volunteer lab
orers under the supervision of his
brother, Chief Edward Wanzagi
Nyerere II. To give them a hand,
the Prime Minister has moved in
some government owned earth
moving equipment.
Did a taped interview for the
Tankanyika Broadcasting corpora
ton, but won't get a chance to
hear it because it's scheduled for
the air the day after I depart.
Wonder why they picked gold,
green and black as the Uhuru
colors for TanganyilIa. Prime Min
lister Nyerere explained. The green