The story tells about the poetic creativity of the character from the famous Soviet film Circus» (1936) directed by G.Alexandrov

The little black kid, played by James Patterson. The film has made the little actor famous. 45 years after the release of the film J.Patterson, the son of an American Negro, a citizen of the USSR, arrived in Tanzania and paid a visit to the Novosti Press Agency (APN) Bureau in Dar es Salaam.

The author of the notes being at that time a head of the APN Bureau received a present from James Patterson – a book of his poems reflecting the historical past and the socialist present of Russia. The book which had an autograph of the author reflected the historic past and the socialist present, the hot days of its great construction projects. The international theme, the poetic solidarity with the Negro people of America, who fought for their civil rights, as well as with the peoples of Africa who defended their independence, runs through all the work of the famous kid “cinema negro”. The content of the book leaves no doubt that for the “cinema negro” it was not the first visit to Africa.

This visit of the poet served the author of the story as a pretext to recall that great work that the APN Publishing House and Moscow Radio was conducting on the African audience. And as our African readers and listeners emphasized our translations into Swahili were of high quality.