Word: africa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After nine years away from Africa he returned in 1934 as editor of the Africa Morning Post in Accra, Gold Coast. It was here he first squared off with the British. Three years later, charged with being a political agitator, he was tried for sedition but the case was quashed. He wrote two books: Liberia and World Politics and Renascent Africa. With his royalties he returned to Lagos, Nigeria and founded Zik's Press...
Nowadays, whenever Britain's imperial eye turns south towards Africa, there stands Zik astride a large slice of rich Nigerian cocoa and palm nut holdings, coal and tin and bauxite deposits. Zik has a handhold on a rich chunk of the Empire and he will...
...Newton Center, Mass., a British subject more than evened things up by continuing to beat the best U.S. pros. By winning the Goodall round robin, South Africa's Bobby Locke (TIME, May 26) made it four out of six tournaments (and some $8,350 in winnings) in two months of U.S. golf. For his last 25 tournament rounds, he was 41 under...
Cape Harting, a Maritime Commission-built C-1 freighter bound for West Africa...
...blue negligee, got several versions of his career: he had really been only a Navy captain, but she had boosted his rank to help "open Washington doors"; he had been a Rough Rider with Teddy Roosevelt and was bitten by a cobra while hunting with Roosevelt in Africa; he had been called ashore by General Pershing in France, where he joined the Rainbow Division...