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After 65 Years, The First African-American-Owned Travel Agency Continues to Provide Travelers With Unique Experiences – Free Press of Jacksonville
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Geography of Nigeria
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5
2010
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Born in 1938 to a family in Monrovia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is the current President of Liberia. Before becoming actively involved in politics, especially that of her native country, Johnson travelled to the United States to acquire higher education after graduating from the College of West
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Togo: In Togo, a Ministry Helping People Living With HIV Is a Sister's Life Work
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Ivory Trade in Africa
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Hubert Ogunde
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4
1990
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Padmore, George (1901-1959)
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W. E. B. Du Bois
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Queen Nzingha Joins the Ancestors
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Smythe, Hugh Heyne (1913-1977)
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Nigeria: jihadist attacks increase ahead of Eid
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Senegal
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Eka, David W. (1945– )
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Jan Mostaert’s Portrait of a Moor (1520-1530)
In the following account University of Cincinnati historian John K. Brackett describes the famous 16th Century painting of a black courtier at the court of Margaret of Austria, the Duchess of Savoy and Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands.  The name and rank of this courtier remains
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Africa and Africans in the Imagination of Renaissance Italians (1450-1630)
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Sierra Leone
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