Word: zulus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mardi Gras morning, before the white folks' Rex comes in splendor to Canal Street, the Negroes are having their own carnival. Up squalid New Basin glides a barge, canopied in sacking, to the wharf at Rampart Street and Howard Avenue. Off the barge strides the King of the Zulus, right royal in black underwear, a hula skirt of sea grass, a tin crown. His sceptre is a broomstick, topped by a snow-white rooster. Preceding him is his Queen, behind are his capering dukes. The King mounts his throne-a decrepit easy chair on a mule-drawn wagon...
John Metoyer, an olive-brown pixie who founded the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club in a woodshed 30 years ago, had never been King of the Zulus. He hardly cared. As daily host to the Zulus at his cafe (now called the Brown Bomber) on Perdido Street, he was the uncrowned soul of Zulu. And at last, this year, John Metoyer was elected King...
...never will King John ride in tin-crowned glory up the Street of the old Rampart Last week, at 47, John Metoyer died. At the Brown Bomber the mourning Zulus gathered, planned a proper funeral with five bands, pallbearers in Mardi Gras skirts of grass, and all the Zulu mourners carrying coconuts. The coconuts would be laid on John Metoyer's bier, that he might fight his way to joy with the heavenly Queen of the Amazon Islands. Mourners hoped that John Metoyer's boyhood friend and Zulu clubmember, famed Zulu Louis ("Satchelmouth") Armstrong, would come down from...
...Boer" is the Dutch form of the English word "boor" in its original meaning-farmer. In the 1830s the Dutch farmers in South Africa decided they would rather live among Zulus and Basutos than live under the thumbs of greedy English traders. Accordingly they set out in oxcarts, migrated inland. Years later they were absorbed again by the spreading sponge of British rule which made them not-too-loyal citizens of the U. S. A. (Union of South Africa...
...From the start the Palestine mandate has been ruled by Colonial Office administrators largely experienced in dealing with unlettered, ignorant Zulus or Sudanese. Taught in the divide-&-rule schools of British Colonial administration, the English carefully nursed weak Arab antiSemitism, helped subsidize a heretofore nonexistent Arab nationalism, set out to sabotage Zionism...