Montag, 2. Februar 2009

Document of the day

For today I have a document for you, from a file I used before in this section. Since there was no electricity today, I could not get new files from the depots, so you will have to live with this extract of "A speach made by Biharamulo African at H.E.'s Coffee Party on 16.02.1950. His Excellency is the then Governour of Tanganiyka Territory, and he is adressed by, do you want to call them: stakeholders?:
"We hope that he will do a great deal during his stay with us in this Territory to develop it in education, social services and agriculture particularly on the side of African communities who are in great meed of such developments. ...most Africans are crying for education - Mass Education - and to sum it up here we are hungry for Higher Education.. Secondly, our land is ... infested with tsetse fly and we need it to be reclaimed in order to get rid of tsetse fly so that we may get a good land for settlement. Thirdly, we require badly several properly placed Maternity Hospitals with qualified Mid-Wives. Lastly, but not least, we erarnestly beg His Excellency to provide this lonely and remote station with a Social Welfare Centre which would release the intolerable conditions which at present are being experienced by the people who live in this minor Settlement. Also a library attached th this Welfare Centre ..."