The two-state heuristic missed much ambling and vernacular motion. Kitawala moved into chiefdoms; after its banning, chiefs used medical censusing to entrap Kitawala. A range in security tastes is suggested: the agitated visions of a Kimbanguist in Ekafera; a Befale nurse, disturbed by Ekafera and prone to peddling in sorcery and exam scores; a famous Rumba star, Henri Bowane, caught stealing a phonograph; and the banning of a French song about colonial nervousness. The fondness of 1954 Congolese writers for the brass band of the suicidal officer of 1902 also open music and hedonism as a theme, as does looking...