Word: watussi
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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Land of Surprise. Black Africa's awakening is spotty and inconclusive-more a blind, biological ferment than a self-conscious surge of nationalism. Africa is still a land of weirdness and surprise: of seven-foot giants like the Watussi, the world's champion high jumpers; dwarf antelopes no bigger than a terrier, and goliath beetles the size of a dove; Pygmy hunters with humplike buttocks, and the society of Leopardmen, whose ferocious devotees riutilate their victims with tiny knives that leave marks like a leopard's claws. Across Africa's unplowed ranges roam herds...
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