Word: african
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alioune Mamadou Kane came to Paris from his native Senegal in the early '30s. A spear-tall (6 ft. 8 in.), mission-trained blackamoor, he made a living by driving a taxi and hawking West African gewgaws. Then, at the 1937 Paris International Exposition, he performed as a fakir. It became a habit...
...decked himself in flowing blue robes, green-&-gold skullcap, ram's-horn necklace and a resounding title: Batoula, the Great Marabout and Prince of Zombie. As prince of an African voodoo cult, he spoke flamboyantly of 2,000,000 followers. In 1939 he made a trip to New York. Harlem gave him a lavish reception, and many a dusky laundress dreamed of becoming his Princess...
Helene Lazareff knows how to mix such ingredients into a palatable Franco-American dish. She started out as an ethnologist, lived with an African tribe two months and sold a series of articles about the adventure to L'Intransigeant, caught on with Paris-Soir, married its editor, Pierre Lazareff. As the editor of Marie-Claire (a sort of Ladies' Home Journal with a French accent), she ran its circulation to 1,250,-ooo copies a week before France fell. As wartime refugees in the U.S., the Lazareffs kept busy, he with the French section...
Henry Agard Wallace was doubly rewarded for his international plugging of "equal justice for all"; the African Academy of Arts and Research presented him with an African mahogany table (see cut) and a session of African whoop-te-do. Ceremonially involved were Prince Akiki Nyabongo of Uganda and K. Ozuomba Mbadiwe of Nigeria (both in flowing robes), Asadata Dafora (who did a knottily convulsive dance) and Norman Coker (who beat a drum...
...Mutual Broadcasting System, the Colonel had some helpful hints to little girls. Said he: "Every Girl Scout should carry a compass, a watch and an electric torch.* The torch is a precaution against becoming benighted. . . . The military compass, by the way, has an interesting story. In the South African...