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Originally Mellon had planned to set up his hospital near Africa's Congo River, then he switched to Haiti because its population is denser and its medical needs acute. Ninety miles from Port-au-Prince, in the Artibonite Valley, Mellon found a site and began to build...
...Northern Rhodesia, our Johannesburg Correspondent Edward Hughes was heading home last week after bouncing some 5,000 miles through Mozambique, the Rhodesias and into the Belgian Congo in a battered Mercury. He stopped off in Lusaka (pop. 60,000) to listen to the black natives' saucepan radio and visit the unique Central African Broadcasting Station (see RADIO & TV). Then he rolled in a cloud of dust 530 miles along the corrugated dirt track, called the Great North Road, to Chinsali, a district commissioner's headquarters. There he switched to a bicycle and pedaled down a goat path through...
...Northern Rhodesia, on the broad lands between the Limpopo and Congo Rivers, more than half a million primitive Africans have found a new, fascinating way to kill time. Every night in their mud huts they listen to their kabulo ka kwa-bamakani (small piece of iron that catches words in air). Their radios are tuned to Lusaka's Central African Broadcasting Station, and their favorite show is a request program called Zimene Mwa Tifunsa (Those You Have Asked For). They also have their favorite record, Don't Sell Daddy Any More Whisky, a lachrymose ditty in hillbilly style...
...Mouth. Listeners are fond of giving performers names that characterize them, and fans think nothing of walking 100 miles or so to see what the voice looks like. One listener recently walked all the way from the interior of the Congo to see Alick Nkata, a young CABS singer. Having stayed three weeks as a house guest, the man left, saying, "Now I can tell my village that I alone have seen Big Mouth." One announcer is known as Umfumfumfu (Man WTho Never Gets Tired of Talking). Another is called Maker of Jokes That Sometimes Are Funny...
...delegates read their reports to an international congress on leprosy sponsored by the Knights of Malta.* In Burma there were 2,000 known leprosy cases in 1951; now there are 30,000. In the Belgian Congo there are now 250,000 known leprosy victims, compared to only 60,000 a few years ago. In French Equatorial Africa there were 37,508 known cases in 1951; now there...