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...economy of Senegal, which produces some of the most beautiful women and best fighting men in Africa, is almost wholly dependent on peanuts, which France buys at 25% over world prices. Neighboring Sudan is even poorer. But the Federation of Mali, said its first Premier, Modibo Keita, 44, supports "the principle of independence as soon as possible...
...Ballets Africains is the creation of Keita Fodeba, a 37-year-old lawyer who became Guinea's Minister of the Interior when that country chose independence last fall in Charles de Gaulle's referendum. As a law student in Paris in 1949, Fodeba led two other Guinean students, Artistic Director Kante Facelli, 35, and Administrator Achkar Marof, 28, in singing African songs over the French radio. What they sang went over so well that Fodeba assembled a successful dance group recruited from fellow Africans in Paris. Then the trio took off on a "25,000-mile" talent hunt...
During the Middle Ages there rose in West Africa a kingdom of warlike tribes that came to be known as the Empire of the Mali (rhymes with Bali). Among its greatest rulers was a crippled boy named Sundiata Keita, who survived the murder of his eleven brothers and ascended the throne in 1230, to build a realm that was eventually to cover what is now Guinea, Senegal, the French Sudan and Ghana. Last week one of Sundiata's descendants, the Sudan's Modibo Keita, was in Dakar, capital of Senegal, as one of the architects of a modern...
From his bamboo and Saksak palm episcopal palace in Keita he and his 54 priests and nuns (including Father James Hennessy of Boston and Father John Conley of Philadelphia) range all through the innumberable islands, in launches and little outrigger canoes. They still encounter an occasional intimation of cannibalism. When one nun visited a remote mountain village in 1937, the chief took a bite out of her arm to sample her flesh but she received no other affront...