Sentence examples similar to African allusions from inspiring English sources

A long, early memoir for The New Yorker — "A South African Childhood: Allusions in a Landscape" — is another standout, evoking the mining country of Witwatersrand, where she was raised ("one of the ugliest parts of a generally beautiful continent"), and her growing adolescent awareness of the racial rift she was born into.

A long, early memoir for The New Yorker—"A South African Childhood: Allusions in a Landscape"—is another standout, evoking the mining country of Witwatersrand, where she was raised ("one of the ugliest parts of a generally beautiful continent"), and her growing adolescent awareness of the racial rift she was born into.

Grassley, a folksy farmer fond of theatrics, opened the hearing flanked by the mounted head of a South African springbok– an allusion to news reports of how big game hunters have written off their safaris by donating their trophies to compliant museums.

And if Wagner's music has a relentless grandeur, Elton John's score for "The Lion King" is relentlessly anodyne, and relieved only rarely by allusions to African vocal music.A minor technical hitch in the "Lion King" performance seen by this reviewer generated a kind of sympathetic warmth among the audience otherwise precluded by the impressive production machine.

In a period of later repentance, Remi cleaned up "Tintin" panels that were tainted by racist portrayals of black Africans and anti-Semitic allusions to Jews.

Soyinka sees Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe as "the latest King Baabu of the African continent" - an allusion to his 2002 play, a satire about a fictional but recognisable tyrannical general called Basha Bash.

The large orchestra creates aural colours and the battery of percussion allows allusions to West African music.

Other commenters said Mandela had been trained by the Russian KGB and made insulting allusions to "South African necklaces".

Charita Gainey-O'Toole and Elizabeth Alexander mine the works of three African American female poets for allusions to Macbeth, but, perhaps appropriately, the collection gives more weight to dramatic reworkings of the play.

It's another allusion to Central African nkisi figures, which often have organic medicinal substances contained within the abdomen.

His canvases echoed Jackson Pollock's effusive muscularity and Rauschenberg's iconographic eclecticism, teeming with imagery culled from a vast junk shop of myth and cultural allusion: angels, saints, African heads, Caravaggio, Artaud, you name it.