Word: congo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard rap of a hollow-log drum. Then Gerald Tzinga and his Rock-a-Mambo Band took over, and white-shirted clerks sedately circled the concrete floor with their partners. With dances, military parades, bicycle races, football matches and the mass distribution of medals for faithful service, the Congo celebrated last week the soth anniversary of its annexation by Belgium...
Music "Hunter Lomax has recorded Pygmies in the Middle Congo, basket weavers in France, geishas in Japan, Saturday night warblers in English pubs (but avoided Wales, which is "a tragedy; everything is Methodist hymns and Handel"). He has mapped the world folk-song families, found surprising links between them. The pinch-voiced, samisen-playing geisha finds an echo in the Spanish mountain-farm laborer thumping a ximbomba drum; "the lonesome, death-ridden American cowboy is a blood cousin to the raga singer in India...
...native reserves," Verwoerd spent more money on them than had any other Minister of Native Affairs. The number of native children in school has almost doubled since 1953. Verwoerd boasts that South Africa spends $8.61 yearly per capita on native health and education, compared with $1.30 in the Belgian Congo and 3? in India. He was quick to add, however, that he was not a Kaffirboetie ("nigger lover") because he spent money on African welfare. In fact, he declared, he was building much cheaper houses than preceding administrations...
...French West Africa and Madagascar to sell his program in person before the people troop to the polls to vote yes or no next month. He was counting on the fund of good will he had earned among Africans with his wartime Free French proclamations from Brazzaville on the Congo, and on a dawning African awareness of the possibility of a more fruitful future in partnership...
They moved into the valley of the Ruzizi River, boundary between the U.N. trusteeship of Ruanda and the Congo proper. Working both sides of the stream, they got native chieftains to pass the word by jungle telegraph. At their chieftains' bidding, 215,504 men, women and children trooped down to rally points where the doctors were waiting with jugs of ice-cold Chat. In some cases, team members squirted the virus-containing liquid into the tribesmen's mouths; usually, they let them take it from a tablespoon. There were no ill effects, and team members have high hopes...