Word: mali
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...where would this guy go? It had to besomeplace obscure. If not Green Bay, maybe Butte,Montana. Or Nome, Alaska. I tried EllesmereIsland, Canada. Timbuktu, Mali. I struck...
Despite the teen trappings, a sense of mission infuses Sarafina!, a portrait of repression and rebellion at a Soweto high school. During "notes," a 15- minute discussion of finer points in the performance, the kids jump up to argue with the assistant director, Mali Hlatshwayo, in rapid-fire Zulu. He thumps his chest. "Emotion," explains one of the cast. At the stage door, starstruck American youngsters gather for autographs, but the kids of Sarafina! don't preen like the show horses of your average chorus line. The girls are mostly hefty. The boys tend toward skinny. Plain faces, remarkably ordinary...
While much of East Africa is afflicted by drought and famine, the continent's northern and western regions are coping with a different tribulation: locusts. Billions of the ravenous insects have swept across Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, and are moving into Mauritania, Senegal and Mali. Aided by heavy rains that facilitate breeding, the swarms have grown into the worst such plague in 30 years...
...Leverett House resident volunteered at an excavation site in Africa's Ivory Coast as part of Operation Crossroads Africa and trekked through Mali during her college summers...
...something they would find hard to achieve at home: a sense of their own autonomy. Says one successful Cuban- American businesswoman in Miami, Maria Elena Torano Pantin, "I became my own person. Not my parents' person, not my kids' person and not my husband's person. But mine." Mali Peruma Davidson, who came from Sri Lanka, says, "Oh, my God, I'm glad I'm in America! In Sri Lanka you are always subjugated to your husband's whims. I would never go back, not to the servants, not to the beauty. I really appreciate being in this country...