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Kinshasa (inhabited place)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

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[Jazz and dance evening, Leopoldville (now known as Kinshasa), 4 December 1948], 1948-12-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/518
Scope and Contents Showing an African couple performing a European dance. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Si les danses ancestrales, au rhythme du tam-tam, sont encore le délassement favori des indigènes de la brousse, il n'en est plus de même dans los grands centres où la population évoluante n'a pas tardé à adopter, dans ce domaine comme dans beaucoup d'autres, les habitudes européennes. C'est ainsi qu'à Léopoldville, le 4 décembre 1948, quatre orchestres et une vingtaine de couples de...
Dates: 1948-12-04
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Paul Lomami Tshibamba, c.1948], 1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/522
Scope and Contents Half-length portrait of Paul Lomani Tshibamba, author of the novel Ngandu, which in 1948 won the Prix Littéraire de la Foire Coloniale de Bruxelles. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Voici Paul Lomami Tshibamba, auteur de la nouvelle intitulée 'Ngandu' qui a remporté en 1948 le prix littéraire de la Foire Coloniale de Bruxelles.Tshibamba, employé de l'administration, vit à Léopoldville.Ziehier Paul Lomami Tshibamba, de schrijver van de novelle 'Ngandu' welke in 1948...
Dates: 1948
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).