Word: zulu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Zulu and the Zayda. Zayda means grandfather in Yiddish, and a pixyish, diminutive grandpa (Menasha Skulnik) is the hero of this "play with music" set in Johannesburg. This Zayda speaks three languages-Zulu Yiddish, English Yiddish, and Yiddish Yiddish. He has a black African friend and com panion, a tall, open-faced child of good nature (Louis Gossett), who strangely enough also speaks Yiddish a good deal of the time. Playgoers who know only English may feel a sneaking desire to hear their mother tongue, but that would be a questionable mercy when the dialogue runs to such dire profundities...
Eighteen years after the British had destroyed the Zulu nation, they crushed Benin. Objecting to the sale of slaves and human sacrifice, a consul general set out in 1897 with eight men to halt the annual ritual of slaughter; they were massacred. In retaliation, a battalion of British soldiers, 1,200 strong, destroyed Benin a month later and brought out as booty 1,000 bronze plaques, which were sold off in London to benefit dis abled veterans. It was the first major appearance of Africana in Europe...
...EVENING WITH BELAFONTE/MAKEBA (RCA Victor). Two of the best Negro singers of the decade combine to give voice to South Africa's sorrow. Singing in Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho or Swahili, they manage to cast light on the Dark Continent through the warmth and vigor of their interpretations...
...WASHING OF THE SPEARS, by Donald R. Morris. This massive history of the Zulu nation highlights two chieftains: Shaka, whose wars of conquest depopulated much of southern Africa, allowing the Boers and British to move in, and his grandson Cetshwayo, who won many battles against British armies of the 1880s but lost the war and the land...
...ineffectual kingdoms whose impis endlessly clashed for a power no longer there. In 1884, Cetshwayo died mysteriously in his kraal at 53, either of heart trouble or poison-no one bothered to determine which. By 1902, Zululand lay open to peaceful colonization. The new rulers were met by Zulu children, hawking spearheads and cartridge cases dug up from the fields where their fathers fell...