Word: continentality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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He said that he hopes to expose average American and British citizens to the African continent.
Not all archaeologists are prepared to go that far. But there is now enough evidence for a scientific consensus that ancient Nubia, beginning in the Stone Age, developed its own distinct civilization--or rather, a series of overlapping civilizations--influenced by Africa, Arabia and the Sahara as well as by...
On a continent normally consigned to the political and economic dustheap, Yoweri Museveni has amply demonstrated that he is something different. The President of Uganda, respected at home as Central Africa's intellectual compass and admired abroad as the harbinger of good news for a blighted region, has successfully resurrected...
That, in the end, is the heart of Museveni's message. "We are building Afrocentric, not Eurocentric, countries," he says, a continent where Africans deal with Africans. But the fragility of these ideas is still painfully evident even to Museveni. He stood at a hotel window in Kinshasa looking across...
San Francisco could take it easy if it wanted to. It could just sit there on the apron of the continent and find contentment in its unfair share of splendor. But America's most hypersensitive city has never been happy without a cause to embrace passionately or, at the very...