Nairobi — Nations prosper when their citizens become adventurous, travel beyond their borders, learn and apply what is positive to the development of their motherland, something Africa is slow in doing writes OKELLO OCULI in Abuja, Nigeria
It has been suggested that the wars of national liberation fought by Spaniards and Portuguese against Muslim colonisers from North Africa (the so-called "Moors"), led to the growth of the power hidden in the science of drawing maps.
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