Word: africa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Both Nowrojee and Ayres have worked in Africa and are activists for human rights in Rwanda...
HASA co-president Frederick Antwi '01, who is from Ghana, said that these types of speeches raised awareness of problems in Africa...
...problems plaguing parts of Africa have long been ignored and it is important to pull them to the forefront," Antwi said...
...fact, there may have been an evolutionary advantage to sluttiness. The females of our closest primate relatives, the chimpanzees and the bonobos, are not exactly paragons of sexual probity. A recent DNA study of chimp behavior in the Tai forest of Africa's Ivory Coast showed that despite the bullying of local males, the wily females were sneaking off so often that half their offspring turn out to be fathered by outsiders. Of bonobos, perhaps the less said the better, at least in a family magazine. These "pygmy chimps," as they are also known, share 98% of our genes...
...seem counter-intuitive that such a close family would voluntarily separate, but the Doveys knew that it made the most sense. Political upheaval in South Africa had destroyed the country's infrastructure and education standards were low. "They were so happy and integrated. It didn't make sense to bring them back," Lindi's father says. "I saw it more functionally, in terms of the education...