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John Nzenze: The Kenyan music pioneer you should know
For John Nzenze, fame came early, and even before his country Kenya won independence from the United Kingdom, Nzenze was churning out what could fairly be described as pop songs in his days. Born in 1940,...
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Trevor Noah calls Tom Cotton’s comments on slavery “possibly stupidest”
Daily Show host Trevor Noah slammed Arkansas senator Tom Cotton and mocked the lawmaker’s comments regarding the 1619 Project that seeks to teach American students about the country’s foundation...
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Lynching of 90-year-old Ghanaian woman suspected of witchcraft scars national conscience
A 90-year-old Ghanaian woman in the north of the country was lynched to death last week by a mob who had been convinced that frail and diminutive Akua Denteh was a witch. According to local sources, Denteh...
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Zimbabwe’s ruling party calls US envoy a “thug”, threatens to sack him
Zimbabwe‘s ruling party, Zanu-PF, has warned that it will move to expel the United States’ ambassador to the country, Brian Nichols, calling him a “thug” who incites disturbances...
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Edafe Okporo, the gay Nigerian refugee who founded the first full-time asylum shelter in NYC
As Edafe Okporo will probably be the first to admit, the vast difference between Delta State in Nigeria and New York does not lie only in the 5,000 miles that separate the two states, but also in what...
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“Slavery was a necessary evil to build America” – Sen. Tom Cotton
The junior Republican senator from Arkansas, Tom Cotton, has argued that the enslavement of Africans by America’s European settlers was “the necessary evil upon which the union was built”....
