Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHETHER the news spins off high- speed presses in Chicago or creaks off a missionary's Mimeograph in an African jungle, it is as essential to the mind and spirit of men everywhere as food is to their stomachs...
...quiet afternoon in the South African shanty village of Moroka. Children played in the dusty roadway and mangy dogs snoozed in the warm sun. Women attended to their pots and gossip. Then Tikoloshe turned...
...following a little man no bigger than a boy-he's got hair all over his body and a long white beard, and claws instead of fingers." The mothers' hearts froze. For this, they knew at once, was Tikoloshe-the evil sprite who tempts South African black men to murder and worse (TIME, Feb. 20), who has the power to lure children away with tales of a marvelous play land, which leaves their brains addled for life. The mothers piled into the church as fast as they could hustle...
...looking through the pages of LIFE one day when he stopped at a picture story about Dr. Albert Schweitzer, who 51 years ago gave up a brilliantly versatile career−as theologian, organist, teacher and musicologist−to become a doctor and work among the natives in the African jungle. "There was a picture of Dr. Schweitzer and an antelope," Mellon recalls. "I had thought he was an organist...
Safari (Warwick; Columbia) had the interesting idea of shooting 30,000 feet of film in Kenya and then hiring a writer to think up a plot. What results is an African western with ferocious Mau Mau taking the place of rampaging Sioux and a biff-bang ending that has Victor Mature standing knee-deep in corpses just as the soldiers come charging to the rescue. Along the way are the usual scenes of trumpeting elephants, petulant rhinos, man-eating lions and fiendish crocodiles with an eye for a pretty girl-in this instance, Janet Leigh. In fact, most...