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Africa: Dateline: Africa
Africa News Service, 1 December 1990
On March 21, 1990, scores of world leaders gathered in a soccer stadium for a dramatic midnight ceremony. After a long war against South African rule, the last colony in… Read more »
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Africa: Savage Beasts and Beastly Savages
Africa News Service, 1 December 1990
From the stories of the African travels of Dr. Doolittle where the monkeys are more intelligent than the people to the modern myths of commercial advertising, Americans are exposed… Read more »
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Africa: If It's Africa, It Must be a Tribe
Africa News Service, 1 December 1990
Imagine how an Associated Press account of Soviet conflicts might read if the dateline were Africa: Read more »
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Africa: Dog Bites Man No Longer News
Africa News Service, 1 December 1990
Negative images of Africa have a lingering persistence. And nowhere are they more powerful than in descriptions of Zaire, the former Belgian Congo and setting for Joseph Conrad's… Read more »
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Africa: A Failure to Communicate: Two Contrasting Views
Africa News Service, 1 December 1990
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Africa: Africa Coverage Continues to Lag
Africa News Service, 1 December 1990
Only Somalia, with thousands of U.S. troops on the ground, gets attention. Read more »