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Word: goundam (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made him settle down again, accept a civil job as interpreter. Salama got his first week's pay, has managed him and their large family with shrewish boisterousness ever since. As head of the Arabic university, commandant of Goundam, interpreter in many a trial and on expeditions against the Tuaregs, Pere Yakouba added more laurels to his grizzling crown. Now most famed but no longer most respected citizen in Timbuctoo, he himself is not sure he has come the right way after all. Rich by native standards, he has a large mud palace, a large black wife, a large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great White Father | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

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