lobagola bata born joseph lee (1 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fine. New York: The Pond Bureau, circa [1930's]., [1930's]. Fine. - Duodecimo (12mo), 7 inches high by 6-3/8 inches wide. Softcover, a 4 page pamphlet with a portrait of LoBagola on the cover page. A promotional pamphlet for lectures by LoBagola under the aegis of James B. Pond of the Pond Bureau with the fictionalized biography created by the impostor printed within. Fine together with a mailing list postcard soliciting information. Bata Kindai Amgoza ibn LoBagola [1877-1947] was born Joseph Lee in Baltimore. This fascinating impostor claimed to be a black Jew from Africa. He is described in a tour brochure as "one of the strangest characters to ever come before the American public. Born in the practically unexplored bush region of the French Soudan, south of Timbuktu, he was brought up in the Judaist religion, belonging to a small sect which observed the Jewish rites in the midst of fetish worshipping negro tribes." LoBagola made a long and colorful career out of regaling audiences with lectures and debates and his pseudo biography was published by Alfred Knopf titled "LoBagola; an African Savage's Own Story". His success was achieved despite a series of scandalous arrests for homosexual activities and he finally ended up in Attica Prison where he died of a pulmonary edema in 1947.