Word: africana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...author who cannot get some good laughs, provoke an occasional shudder, excite a few mildly erotic curiosities, inspire a self-congratulatory mood, in a book about African tribesmen. No dullard, Author Elspeth Huxley, a cousin-by-marriage of Novelist Aldous, has packed into Red Strangers well-above-average Africana for the money...
...Africana (by Donald Heywood; John Mason, producer). Negro Donald Keywood, the Noel Coward of Harlem, recently returned from a trip to Africa. His visit inspired him to write Africana, billed as a serious Negro operetta. African atmosphere is supplied by a King Yafouba, a Prince Soyonga and a chorus of "African jumpers...