Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sudan, whose 8,000,000 people have little love for British or Egyptians, it was the same. Sudan, rich in cotton and wide with desert, is 3½times the size of Texas. Its people, Arab in the north, African tribesmen in the south, want their independence. The British think they won't be ready for it for ten years, but may be forced to concede it sooner. Egypt's peremptory claim of control of the Sudan is opposed by all but one political party in the Sudan. And the resident British Governor General, square-faced Sir Robert...
Gingerly rolling back the tide of earth in one hall, 13 feet wide, the excavators found a mosaic picturing an African big-game hunt (see opposite page). After uncovering 72 feet of the hall, the end of the mosaic was nowhere in sight. Fishing scenes and pictures drawn from the myths of Hercules and Orpheus embellished other rooms of the villa. Probably the most startling discovery was the mosaic floor of what archaeologists guess was once a girls' gymnasium. Theresa laurel-crowned prizewinner and her willowy companions disport themselves in skimpy woolen garb-an unmistakable preview of today...
...seldom on the battlefield, and then only in defeat. The script, by Producer-Writer Nunnally Johnson, has the competence of journalistic history, but most of the excitement is packed into the picture's opening moments, during an ill-fated British Commando raid on Rommel's North African headquarters...
...Cuff. Cary knows what he is writing about. During World War I he fought through the Cameroons campaign as an officer in a Nigerian regiment, later became magistrate of a district deep in the bush. Of the four novels that have come out of his African experience, Mister Johnson is the best, at once humorous and sympathetic, fresh and exuberant as Negro gossip...
...Mister Johnson is considerably more than the portrait of a picaresque primitive. In a short novel, Cary has managed to convey the squalor of African village existence, the frustrations of English officials and the enormous volatility and friendliness of the Nigerian native. Novelist Cary, unlike most of his fellow practitioners, always seems to write as if he enjoyed it. In Mister Johnson his pleasure edges every sentence...