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Word: dahomey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both Over African Jungles and Speak to the Earth are frivolous works compared with Africa Dances. Geoffrey Gorer, 30-year-old English writer, traveled from Dakar through French West Africa to Dahomey and the Gold Coast, with Feral Benga, famed Parisian Negro dancer, who wanted to stage a Negro ballet. The travelers saw some extraordinary native dancing, including the performance of adagio dancers who danced with children and knives, throwing knives that seemed to pass through the children in midair. But most of Africa Dances is devoted to realistic appraisals of native culture, political and economic conditions, colonial administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Three on Africa | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

...three as particularly noteworthy 1) Bieri, a stolid engaging head of a young girl from French Gabun, with long formalized curls; 2) a witch doctor's Konde figure, dumpy, menacing and studded with nails representing curses against an enemy; 3) a squatting Venus, also from French Gabun. From Dahomey came one of the largest exhibits, the iron war god in the lobby, nearly life-size and wearing a strange spiked hat and a garment like a pleated nightshirt. His raised left arm looked as if he were signaling over his shoulder with his thumb, like any hitchhiker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Works of Fear | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

Author Bata Kindai Amgoza Ibn Lo-Bagola has had a hard, queer time. A black man but a Jew, he is a native of the Ondo bush, hinterland of Dahomey, in western Africa. His people, according to legend, left Palestine after Roman Titus' sack of Jerusalem (A. D. 70), fled to Morocco, to Timbuktu and farther. There, swallowed up by African natives, they still remained a Jewish sect, continued Jewish rites. Says LoBagola: they carry out the ceremony of circumcision to the letter, "although not in the same way as in Palestine today. Our rabbis permit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man Without A Country | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

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