Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them The Britons who tried to rule them bribed the tribal chiefs into loyalty. But without the skull, the chiefs lost all prestige and power among their people. Meanwhile the German Government, not particularly anxious to help British rule in what had once been Germany's great African colony, denied that it had ever removed the skull from East African territory Last week came evidence that Germany had not lied, in a letter to The East African Standard from H. Malcolm Ross, British land agent in Tanganyika...
...been discovered at Kimberley (1870). Rhodes got in on the ground floor, was soon making ?100 a week. At 27 he founded de Beers Mining Co., soon had control of practically all South Africa's diamond fields-90% of the world's diamonds. He entered the South African Parliament, and nine years later was Prime Minister of the Cape Colony. By bribery, intrigue, diplomacy, persuasion, force he worked to bring about a united South Africa. Like most men of action a mixture of cynic and sentimentalist, he made no bones of his tricky actions but could not bear...
...Matabele ran amuck and were proving costly to subdue. Unarmed, with a few companions, Rhodes went among the Matabele warriors, persuaded the chiefs to air their grievances and lay down their arms. Only big mistake of Rhodes's career, which cost him the loyalty of many a South African, was the Jameson Raid into the Transvaal, which it was hoped would finish President ("Oom Paul") Kruger and his Boers, bring the Transvaal into Rhodes's hands. Instead, the raid was made prematurely, and against Rhodes's last minute instructions. Kruger's Boers made short work...
...confused with African sleeping sickness (trypanosomiasis), an entirely different disease caused by the bite of the tsetse...
Sharply in contrast was the sophisticated style in which Tamiris interpreted primitive themes, ranging from Negroid to Spanish. Least successful was her own composition, the "Gris-Gris Ceremonial," based on African rites of propagation. Happily it was the only one in which she joined with the Bahamans. Alone, Dancer Tamiris displayed a studied, metallic style which emphasized posture rather than motion, successfully overcame the handicap huge Lewisohn Stadium places on a solo dancer. A friendly audience loudly clamored for encores. Critics who joined in the applause for Tamiris found the lusty cavorting of the Bahama dancers merely the obvious counterpart...