Word: congo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white man is fighting only a delaying action, and any idea that the European in Africa does not know this does him an injustice. Everywhere north of the Limpopo the whites are working for some kind of multiracial solution. In the lakeside town of Bukavu in the Belgian Congo, angry colons recently pelted a Belgian colonial minister with tomatoes because they thought him too liberal. At the same time, a prosperous white merchant in Elisabethville was explaining to a visitor: "We do not want apartheid [segregation]. We wish to share power with the African. The only criterion will be individual...
Among the odd cults that nourish in the French Congo, perhaps the oddest of all is the Matswa cult, which takes its name from a Congolese who served as a French army sergeant in World War I. Preaching passive resistance against the French, Andre Matswa persuaded his followers not to pay taxes, accept identity cards or cultivate peanuts as ordered by the French. He died of dysentery in a French Congo prison in 1942. His disciples, deifying him, hold that he is still alive and will return one day to the Congo to drive the whites out. In their legend...
Most of the French Congo's 15,000 Matswanists either abstain from voting in elections or vote for the dead Matswa. Particularly nettled by such tactics is the Abbe Fulbert Youlou, Premier of the new Congo Republic, because the Matswanists are of his own tribe-the Lari. Since the Congo recently became self-governing, there have been frequent-clashes between Matswanists and other Lari tribesmen. The Matswanists were stoned; their homes were burned. Driven out of their own countryside, 2,500 Matswanist refugees squatted in a suburb of the capital of Brazzaville and refused to be evacuated...
This week Guide's noiseless cash registers are ringing up drinks and entrance fees to a brisk rhythm, the music of Vibraphonist Cal Tjader and his jazz quartet (quickly convertible to a bongo-congo Latin quintet with the addition of a crack drummer named "Mongo"). Says Owner Guido: "We give the customers good jazz. The musicians we don't bother. We never walked around with big cigars and said, 'I'm Mister Black Hawk and won't you sit at my table, musician?' They can look right across the room when they play...
Dame Edith Evans as the sympathetic superior general is superb, and she adds a warm human element to the austerity of the film. Peter Finch, the atheistic doctor in the Congo, rattles Sister Luke with his outbursts that question her vocation to be a nun and needle her about her religion and convent rule. Peter Finch and Dean Jagger as Sister Luke's surgeon-father are both excellent contrasting contributors to the nun's saga...