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Story of the Congo, Black God is no travelog but an interpretation of the spiritual conflicts that follow the encroachment of white culture on black folk. Here "Civilization" and "Paganism" meet at the ford of a small tributary of the Congo River where an "outpost of progress" is in the making. Not a novel for best-seller lists, Black God should be enjoyed by discriminating readers for its humor, its delicate prose...
Alabama is home to 2,700,000 U. S. citizens, but to Carl Carmer, a Yankee who lived there six years, it is also a queer place. Says he: "The Congo is not more different from Massachusetts or Kansas or California." His book, an anecdotal narrative of some of his experiences in Alabama, goes far toward bearing out his thesis. But Alabamians would have to be thin-skinned indeed to object to the tone of Author Carmer's remarks. Though he makes many an explicit criticism, points silently at some grim conclusions, he also tosses many a bouquet, with...
...Francqui was familiar with the White House and its portals. Sent to the Congo as a youth he helped secure for Belgium the vast territory that now holds her famed copper mines. A born empire builder. Emile Francqui was soon serving his country elsewhere. In China where he went as economic adviser to the Government he met a young U. S. engineer named Herbert Hoover. Some years later, during the World War, he was Herbert Hoover's chief coadjutor in distributing Belgian relief. After the War his contacts with the U. S. multiplied. He was a member...
...Elephant grass cut her bare feet and legs, the sun blistered her bare thighs, arms and back; African insects gouged her everywhere. The heroine rejoiced when a cloudburst destroyed the camp, two hippopotamuses trampled the debris, and Director Van Dyke ordered the company to move to the Belgian Congo...
...Belgian Congo the dread tsetse fly, transmitter of African sleeping sickness, was a menace. The cinemactors protected themselves by anointment with a foul-smelling oil which repelled the tsetse flies. Miss Booth, however, contracted malaria and dysentery, fell from a tree and almost fractured her skull, suffered a sunstroke. When she returned to Hollywood, her young husband, who had remained behind, got their marriage annulled. Wife of one of the Trader Horn actors sued her for $50,000 for alienation of affection. And M-G-M doctors took her in charge. Uncertain were they whether her debility...