[Cronos]

you mean black SAMbo.

It was about a southern Indian boy. The American editions had an erroneous front cover with a black Negroid boy, but had the original inner drawings of a southern Indian boy facing off a tiger

[Verginius Rufus]

Yes, little black Sambo was definitely set in India, not Africa. My mother loved that book as a child.

The Sambo restaurants were so named because they were founded by two men named Sam and Bob. When they started to get attacked as having a racist name, they shut down. I don't know why they didn't just renamed it "Sam and Bob's Restaurant."