Word: africana
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...90th birthday was honored throughout the People's Republic of China. The Soviet Union awarded him the Lenin International Peace Prize. And at the end of his years Dr. Kwame Nkrumah invited him to come to Africa and begin what someday may be considered his greatest contribution, the Encyclopaedia Africana. He became a citizen of Ghana three years before his death. The New England boy, born when slavery died, died belonging to the re-birth of his people...
...Henry A. Wallace for President. Haughtily elegant, sporting a white goatee and pince-nez, he boasted of his French-Dutch-Negro mixed blood ("but, thank God, no Anglo-Saxon"), turned left with age, two years ago moved to Ghana to become director of the Nkrumah government-sponsored Encyclopedia Africana, and joined the Communist Party, apologizing for having been so "long and slow" in confirming his Red faith...
...programs listed one old reliable after another (Brahms's Lullaby, Una furtiva lagrima from L'Elisir d'Amore, O Paradiso from L'Africana), but the cheering listeners evidently were in the mood for chestnuts. The music was just what Gigli always sang best, and he showed traces of his old vocal glory: a refined moment of color, a liquid pianissimo phrase, a ringing high note. More often, the voice was thin, unsteady, and unmistakably 65 years...
...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...