Word: nkrumah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Smith's recording talent has been found in strange places. Recordings of Fanti-a West African Negro tongue-were made by Francis Nkrumah, a Gold Coast native, now a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania. Biggest problem was finding someone who could speak Madagascar's Hova language. Lieut. Smith searched up & down the land before he finally discovered a Harlem cook who was three-quarters Melanesian, one-quarter Polynesian. He was married to a Jamaican Negro. They courted in French; now from Smith's records she is learning Hova...