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Letter "A" » African
«The privilege of a higher education, especially outside Africa, broadened my original horizon and encouraged me to focus on the environment, women and development in order to improve the quality of life of people in my country in particular and in the African region in general.»
Author: Wangari Maathai
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Keywords:
Africa,
African,
broaden,
broadened,
broadening,
Broadens,
encouraged,
focus on,
higher education,
horizon,
in particular,
My Country,
region
«Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens' characters are Nigerians. Do y»
Author: Ben Okri
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About:
Life,
Literature
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Keywords:
African,
dickens,
dweller,
dwellers,
Falstaff,
for example,
ghetto,
ghettos,
largeness,
The characters,
Turgenev
«The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America and the introduction of African slaves in their place»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
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Philosopher)
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About:
Christianity,
War
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Keywords:
African,
Africans,
America,
butcheries,
butchery,
Christianity,
crusade,
crusades,
crusading,
extermination,
exterminations,
fruits,
inquisitions,
introduction,
introductions,
Introduction to,
Natives,
religious,
religious war,
slaves,
The Crusades,
the Inquisition,
wars
«Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood.»
Author: Conan O'Brien
(
Writer)
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Keywords:
African-American,
African,
Africans,
called for,
held up,
location,
Locations,
museum,
neighborhood,
neighborhoods,
Republicans
«Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.»
«Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.»
«The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope. African music is often about the aspirations of the A»
Author: Nelson Mandela
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Statesman)
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About:
Hope,
Music
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Keywords:
African,
Africans,
aspirations,
curious,
even as,
ramshackle,
tale,
The A,
uplift,
uplifted,
uplifting,
uplifts
«TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect (_Glossina morsitans_) whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients prefer that of the American novelist (_Mendax interminabilis_).»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
African,
Africans,
bite,
commonly,
efficacious,
insect,
insomnia,
novelist,
patients,
regarded,
remedy,
The American,
the novelist,
tsetse,
tsetse fly,
tzetze
«The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.»