Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Justin C. Danilewitz (Commentary, "Mandela & Company," Nov. 10) is unhappy with the way South African President Nelson Mandela courts certain foreign leaders that are currently blacklisted by the Clinton Administration. As far as Danilewitz is concerned, meetings with the likes of Muammar el-Qaddafi and Yasser Arafat tarnish Mandela's stellar political credentials...
...interest in the neighborhood--with the exception of the few black fire fighters who were there--and treated the station house as a fortress. Residents viewed them as outsiders, and some youngsters vandalized the place with rocks and graffiti. But as white firemen slowly transferred out, a core of African Americans who chose to remain behind began leaving the station's steel door open nearly 20 hours a day. At that point something unexpected happened: people stopped trashing the place, and children started venturing inside...
...singer Diana King with her new release, Think Like a Girl (Work Group); the hip-hop-charged star Capleton with his album I-Testament (Def Jam); and trip-hop-tinged newcomer Finley Quaye with his debut CD Maverick a Strike (550 Music). A much more established star, South African traditionalist Lucky Dube, also has a new CD out, Taxman (Shanachie). The fact that reggae, like a nation secure enough to welcome new immigrants, is able to nurture such a varied group of up-and-comers is a sign of the genre's vitality. Certainly none of these young lions...
...audience, and Stomp is often described as possessing a "primal" appeal on this level, or in terms of a universal "ritual" of rhythm. Its creators acknowledge that fact, adding that the show is influenced by a variety of different cultural incarnations of rhythm--ranging from Japanese and African drumming traditions to American tap dance--but that the language of rhythm seems to be universal...
Fittingly enough, Gates is in Ghana until November 23. Gates is currently narrating a film, Wonders of the African World, for BBC television, to be released in England in early...