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The Black Panther May Have His Roots In A 15th Century African Kingdom

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Winona Dimeo-Ediger | May 7, 2016 | NPR If you haven't heard of the Marvel superhero Black Panther, that's going to change very soon. With a reboot of the comic series just released — authored by none other than National Book Award winner Ta-Nehisi Coates — plus the character's on-screen debut in the new blockbuster Captain America: Civil War and the launch of a film … [Read more...] about The Black Panther May Have His Roots In A 15th Century African Kingdom

Zimbabwe Introduces New Currency, Angering Everyone

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Brian Latham and Godfrey Marawanyika | May 6, 2016 | Bloomberg A new currency printed by Zimbabwe’s central bank to ease a cash shortage has drawn scorn from critics attacking it as signaling a return to the hated local dollar, abandoned seven years ago as inflation spiraled to 500 billion percent. The central bank will distribute units with face values ranging from … [Read more...] about Zimbabwe Introduces New Currency, Angering Everyone

The Cost of the Cultural Revolution, Fifty Years Later

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Evan Osnos| May 6, 2016 | The New Yorker In 1979, three years after the end of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, the Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping visited the United States. At a state banquet, he was seated near the actress Shirley MacLaine, who told Deng how impressed she had been on a trip to China some years earlier. She recalled her conversation with a … [Read more...] about The Cost of the Cultural Revolution, Fifty Years Later

Why The Villages Are Losing Their Young Men

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Ofeibea Quist-Arcton | May 5, 2016 | NPR Bourang Ba was a young farmer in Sitacourou — a sleepy village of scattered thatched roof dwellings where cattle chomp on hay in courtyards. Last year, the father of two set out for Europe, leaving behind his son, daughter and young wife, Nialina. Like his two half-brothers who had already migrated to Spain, he hoped to send money … [Read more...] about Why The Villages Are Losing Their Young Men

White tears: The most valuable currency

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Rebecca Davis | 06 May 2016 | Mail & Guardian Rebecca Davis finds it hard to laugh about the obscenity of the R140k raised by indignant sentinels of whiteness for a bullied waitress. I was a waitress for 10 years. As a student, I waitressed on and off to pay expenses and, as an adult, I waitressed full-time in the United Kingdom for a while to live. I wasn’t a … [Read more...] about White tears: The most valuable currency

China’s embrace of harmony makes it a good African fit

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George Rautenbach  | May 06 2016 | Business Day WITH the spate of negative publicity China has endured over time, it seems appropriate to try to reframe our understanding and thinking about East Asian culture. Having had the opportunity to work directly under C-level East Asian leadership in the past eight years in Africa, I have come to learn a lot more about their … [Read more...] about China’s embrace of harmony makes it a good African fit