Even before 1960, when seventeen countries in Africa gained independence in a single year, American diplomats had identified ...

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While many churches are seeing a decline in parishioners, the church on Salisbury Street is seeing an increase in their pews.

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Addis Ababa plots crusade to reclaim artefacts from the Royal Collection amid hopes that Labour will be more amenable than ...

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Narrative imagination, conceptual insight and rigorous analysis are essential to illuminating history. A Nobel Prize in history should celebrate this interdisciplinary richness, acknowledging scholars ...

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the African god of war and iron, or the blue and gold of Erzulie Dantor, the goddess of jealousy and passion in the Haitian Vodou paradigm. A central figure in many Carnivals is the mischievous ...

France, humiliated and impoverished, looked toward a new northern African empire sweeping from the ... of the world—Asia and Africa, South and Central America, the West Indies and the islands ...

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