Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with their eleven great gates and 181 watchtowers gleamed in the night. "Seen thus," wrote British Traveler Fitzroy Maclean in Escape to Adventure-an account of his journeys in 1938 to forbidden parts of the U.S.S.R. -"Bukhara seemed an enchanted city, with its pinnacles and domes and crumbling ramparts white and dazzling in the pale light of the moon...
...Where Do Coloureds Come From?" asks Drum, Africa's leading magazine. Then it answers its own question: "coloureds" (who are all shades between black and white) come from some of South Africa's oldest, most respected white families. "It is fairly safe to say,'' added Drum (naming names), "that where any family has been in this country for more than 200 years, the chance of having no infusion of colour is remote...
...what the magazine meant it to be. Beamed straight at the heart of Africa's black man, Drum in eight years has grown from a scarcely audible protest into a commanding voice. Each month 240,000 copies are distributed across Africa-more than any other magazine, black or white. By Mammy-wagon bus and human shoulder, it reaches into eight African countries (Union of South Africa, Central African Federation, Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone) to be snapped up even by illiterates, who pay educated friends to read each issue aloud. West African government officials sometimes call...
Threaded through Drum's lively editorial potpourri is a dedication to the equality of man. Drum recognizes no color line, not even on its 125-man staff, where black and white work side by side. When the Rhodesian government boasted that "better-class Africans, properly dressed and properly behaved," would not be discriminated against, Drum tailored one of its Negro reporters in an expensive suit, equipped him with a certificate of education from a white university professor, then assigned him to order a meal in a Salisbury railway station cafe. As the reporter was thrown out, Drum cameras clicked...
English & Swahili. Such candid journalism hardly sits well with white officials, who have impounded issues and jailed staffers, sometimes confiscated the cameras of Drum photographers on the ground that any "coloured" with a camera must surely have stolen it. These difficulties do not perturb Drum's Editor Henry Thomas Hopkinson, 54, former editor of the London Picture Post (now defunct), who went to Johannesburg in 1958, regularly entertains native staffers in his home...