Word: african
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South African radio, currently consisting of eleven English-language stations and eleven Afrikaans, is state-owned, but some time next fall it will start broadcasting commercials. The purpose: 1) to give business a hand with a new advertising medium; 2) to get more money for better radio programs. To help decide how to go commercial-and how commercial to go-the Government sent a brainy, 31-year-old actress, Hermien Dommisse, to study U.S. radio. Last week, after three months of the job, she had some conclusions...
...British Leave-. In the African colonies, agitation for self-government has begun to discover both leaders and obstacles. A native Gold Coast spokesman, Robert Kweku Atta Gardiner, said recently in a New York speech...
That is a tall order, but Gardiner is a moderate among native African leaders. In nearby Nigeria lives a more extreme and more important Negro spokesman, the fabulous Nnamdi Azikiwe, known as "Zik." In the 1920s, Zik stowed away on a ship for the U.S., where he worked his way to a LaSalle Extension University law degree by dishwashing, coal mining and boxing. Zik is owner and editor of Lagos' West African Pilot, which mixes inflammatory anti-British editorials with a heartthrob column much franker than Dorothy Dix's. (Recently a Nigerian youth wrote in to ask which...
...United Brethren's 454,000 and the Evangelical's 260,000 give the new church 714,000 members, rank it just below the African Methodist Episcopal Church for size...
...older conductors ignore. They crowded into recitals by Singers Marian Anderson, Carol Brice and Giuseppe De Luca; concerts by Pianists John Kirkpatrick and Alexander Brailowsky (who in six programs is playing every solo piano piece Chopin wrote). There were folk songs and ballads, American songs by Tom Scott, South African veld songs by Josef Marais, and jive concerts all over the place...