Word: africa
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...Leroy Vail, professor of history and Harvard's senior historian of Africa, died on March 27. He was 55 years...
Vail advocated for the recruitment of graduate students from Africa to study history at Harvard...
...also taught History 1904. Underdevelopment in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1884 to President, and History 1909: A History of Southern Africa...
Akyeampong said Vail's case studies on tribalism and tradition in southern Africa reshaped how academics think about ethnicity...
...Albert Schweitzer, a missionary, opens a hospital in Lambarene, French Equatorial Africa (now Gabon), for the treatment of leprosy and sleeping sickness