Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...occupy almost every available ecological niche except the polar regions, from rain forests to deserts to the sea. Probably descended from nearly limbless lizards that lived during the age of dinosaurs 90 million years ago, snakes are divided into some 2,700 species, ranging in size from pencil-long African thread snakes to gigantic 20-ft. pythons and anacondas that are big enough to swallow a human. To fit into a cylindrical body, their viscera are ingeniously modified--with organs either shrunken or stacked on top of one another...
...long-term effect of this isolation appears to be a generation of juvenile delinquents. "The whole thing has much to do with the setup of elephant society," says zoologist Marian Garai, a Swiss-born South African who has been studying the relocation. Under normal circumstances, she says, a dominant older male elephant is around to keep young bulls in line. For the newly arrived youngsters, however, no such role models were provided, and Garai believes this may have had a profound effect on the elephants' psychology...
Soul Food is also feeling like a hit. The weekend it opened, all eyes were on DreamWorks' $70 million first feature, The Peacemaker (George Clooney! Nuclear terrorism!). But when the box-office numbers were tallied, a little-heralded African-American family drama named Soul Food (Irma P. Hall! Sweet-potato pie!) had not only grabbed the No. 3 position with $11.2 million in ticket sales but had also scored the highest per-screen average of any film in wide release: $8,363. And by last Thursday, Soul Food had taken in $3 million more, bringing its gross to more than...
...question is, Will the impact last? "Every five or seven years, Hollywood gets a wake-up call," says Reuben Cannon, a black producer and TV casting agent. "It started with She's Gotta Have It in 1986. But the studios forget that the most active filmgoing audience is African Americans. If you make films, they will come, but it's got to be a quality film...
...story focuses on two half-brothers growing up in the United States, one of whom is African and the other African-American. Ashong says he chose a musical because during his Fall 1995 semester in Ghana, he realized how fundamental oral literature and music were to African identity...