Word: niger
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...schedule includes a festival of black art today and tomorrow at the Afro-American Cultural Center, a lecture tonight on media stereotypes of black women, and two showings tonight of the film "The River Niger...
...have brought adequate harvests, but the moisture may prove to be a mixed blessing. The rainfall spawned an almost biblical plague of rats, locusts and caterpillars in Mali, Senegal, Mauritania and Upper Volta. Millions of gerbils, which U.S. children often keep as pets, are loose on the land in Niger, devouring everything in sight...
Only after four decades of exploration did the world learn that the Niger flowed northeast, then took a mighty turn at Timbuctoo and continued south into the Gulf of Guinea at the slave-trading settlement called Brass...
Forty years later a lack of rapport still was noticeable. In 1894 Sir Fred erick Lugard, who was to become Nigeria's first Governor, traveled to an inner principality called Borgu and succeeded in getting two treaties signed in favor of the British Royal Niger Company. As he returned there was a brief skirmish. Lugard reported with the stiffest possible upper lip: "The only casualty in the fighting line was myself, an arrow having penetrated deep into my skull." When he got home, he sustained another grievous wound: the signatures on the treaties were fake...
There is no falsity about the signatures that Africa has left on De Gramont's pages. Any flaws in this evocative account are those of omission, not commission. The emerging nation surrounding the Niger has great physical presence; it is its current political and social aspects that are largely unexplored...