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...Africa's Middle Congo a kani is a wizard, and along the banks of the muddy Alima River a kani's orders are not taken lightly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Death of a Kani | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

Last year, three students from the College accompanied Carroll at their own expense on a scientific expedition to the Belgian Congo. The undergraduates studied anthropology, botany, zoology, and linguistics among the African tribes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Animal Collector to Visit Lowell House | 3/6/1956 | See Source »

...British, some 700 mutineers gave themselves up, but a campaign of counterterror launched by the northern Sudanese put the rest to flight. Some Negro rebels cast off their uniforms and returned to tribal life; others went on pillaging villages. Thousands of tribesmen fled with their families to the Belgian Congo and Uganda. District commissioners tried captured rebels in drumhead courts, ordered 168 executed by firing squads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUDAN: Trumpets Sounding | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

Gunther quickly inspected Swaziland (contrary to legend, he reports, its native ruler does not have twelve toes), Portuguese Africa (forced labor is still the rule), the Belgian Congo (booming). He trekked to the jungle compound where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black & White | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...hardly be imagined. Yet Marshall will not accept a theoretical solution that the only chance for desegregation in Mississippi and other parts of the Deep South is a mass migration of Negroes that will drastically change population percentages (see map). Perhaps he remembers his ancestor from the Congo, who would not leave the state even for his manumission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAW: The Tension of Change | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

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