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The Colonial Names of African States
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Kenya: When Genocide Fugitive Kabuga Ran Businesses in Kenya
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Africa: In Era of COVID-19, Russia's Strategic Politics of Coronavirus Aid Takes the Stage in Africa
While Russia, for a time, appeared to escape a serious coronavirus outbreak, the situation there has changed drastically during these two months of April and May, - passing Germany and France to become the third most-infected country in the world, according to The Moscow
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Ethiopia agrees to delay filling Nile mega-dam, say Egypt, Sudan
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Africa: Presidency On the Extraordinary African Union Bureau of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government Video-Teleconference Meeting On the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
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Visitation Held For Dr. Conrad Worrill, African-American Leader In Civil Rights And Education
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Rwanda: What Civil Society, Genocide Survivors Think of Kabuga's Arrest
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A Marxist Scholar Analyzes the American Legal System
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Jones, William B. (1928- )
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Perry, June Carter (1943- )
Ambassador June Carter Perry was born November 13, 1943 in Texarkana, Arkansas.  After completing grade school, Perry was accepted at the Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois where in 1965 she earned her degree in history.  Two years later she earned a master’s degree in European History at the
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