Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the recent surge of star-filled African travelogues, The Pennywhistle Blues is pleasant entertainment indeed. Keeping the camera on actual natives in a small suburb outside Johannesburg, director Donald Swanson has uncovered something more absorbing than rushing rhinos and garish headdresses. And unlike his Hollywood counterparts, Swanson has commuted a warmth to the film beyond the Zulu temperatures...
...quality of the film lies in Swanson's ability to catch the innate humor in his cast. Pennywhistle Blues takes the South African native out of a loin cloth and puts him into the Western clothes he's accustomed to wearing. It is a film in which the natives amuse rather than terrorize. With its inventive photography and a crew of natural performers, Mr. Swanson has come up with some sensitive anthropological touches that Margaret Mead never thought about. And nobody flings a spear all evening...
...Seldom have I heard Nyasa Africans called "niggers" and only occasionally "coons"by Nyasa Europeans [Sept. 14]. Your wording is a slur on both races. The usual is "native," "muntii"(person), "munt" (person abbreviated), though even these are beginning to suffer under the "locals' " aggravated persecution/inferiority complex so that "African" or "Nyasa" are generally taking their places...
...trust you will keep your implications of "Chifwamba" in mind when you attempt to report what the Nyasa thinks of the Central African Federation...
Like her heroine, Novelist Nadine Gordimer is a young (29) South African, and The Lying Days, her first novel, sounds as if it were filled with authentic echoes of autobiography. Novelist Gordimer has not yet learned how to bring characters to life, but she has skill in fitting words together and in expressing nuances of emotion. What she has to say may not be new, but she says it well and men of good will never tire of hearing...