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...General Summerfield, he is now free to return to his more customary reading matter, mostly books and magazines about hunting, fishing, motorboating. He is currently on Zanza buku, the account of safaris to Africa. whose four-letter words for the most part are confined to oryx, topi, lion and Zulu...
...ZULU AND THE ZEIDE (247 pp.)- Don Jacobson-Little, Brown...
From the "hungry i" (The Kingston Trio; Capitol LP). One of the most gifted trios in years offers an artfully mixed bag of selections from a San Francisco nightclub program. Included are a French lullaby, a calypso number, a Zulu hunting chant and a stunningly arranged version of They Call the Wind Maria. The group has antic imagination and enough craft to strike sparks from as shopworn a number as When the Saints Go Marching...
...warfare. Throughout the native quarters of Bacongo and Poto-Poto, Balali tribesmen, loyal to the abbé, and the M'Boshi went after each other with everything from broken bottles to the deadly assagai-the short spear used by Chaka, the "Black Napoleon," to conquer his 19th century Zulu empire. At first the M'Boshi in their white headdresses proved more adept at carving up their enemies just as their ancestors used to do, but the Balalis, wearing leaves in their hair, retaliated by setting whole blocks of M'Boshi shanties on fire. The official estimate...
Down at Dunster House, the humanities have taken on an exotic cast this year. An expert on witchcraft has just filled the room left by a tall African named Selbourne Mvusi, who was billed as a "Zulu artist." Of genuine Zulu origin, Mvusi produces sombre, impressionistic oils and mournful woodcuts. He is studying art education at Penn State, at the suggestion of Professor Gordon All-port, who also invited him to Dunster House...