Word: zulu
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SOME OF CATHY DEALE'S BEST-SELLING products have nautical and shell motifs, even though many of the Zulu women who embroider them have never even seen the ocean, let alone a sailboat. But they don't seem to mind. Thanks to Deale's importing business, the craftswomen near Durban, South Africa, are living much better than ever before...
Deale stumbled into her business when she was on an overseas trip. A native of South Africa, she had owned a corporate-gift company there before immigrating to the U.S. with her husband in 1997. When she went back to visit, Deale saw beautifully detailed embroidery made by Zulu craftswomen. "I just knew people would want them here," she says. Although the women have "extraordinary natural talents in beading, weaving and stitching," she says, the Zulu artisans were either illiterate or barely educated. She discovered that many of their husbands had died of AIDS, which has ravaged the country. "Many...
...developed her business, Deale was passionate about improving the Zulu women's living standards. Many of the women she employs were skilled artisans with limited markets for their wares. Others, who were unskilled, received training. The extra earnings have helped them, as sole breadwinners, support their families better and raise money for medicine for close relatives with AIDS. (Deale says according to two of her suppliers, at least half of their workers have family members who suffer from or have died of the disease.) What's more, the crafts work allows the women to stay at home, where they...
...Song of Jacob Zulu. Tug Yourgrau's play about the making of a black South African terrorist was raw but unforgettable in Eric Simonson's epic staging, brought to Broadway by Chicago's Steppenwolf troupe. K.Todd Freeman glowed in the title role, Zakes Mokae excelled as several elders, and Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the a cappella singing group, served gloriously as a modern Greek chorus...
...Such story pictures were put together from studies of professional models. Jamaican-born Fanny Eaton often turns up in the background of biblical subjects, but later in the century black models appeared on the losing side in topical battle pictures. Prints like Lts Coghill and Melville Saving the Colours, Zulu War, 1879 (1882), after Adolphe Alphonse de Neuville, may look stagey to us, but even back then not everyone found them convincing. A critic commented: "[We see] the ordinary Parisian negro-models, reproduced in more or less warlike attitudes." Many painters became interested in their models' own stories. A section...