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- Patronage, millennialism and the serpent God Mumbo in south-west Kenya, 1912-34
- From 1914 to 1934 the creed of Mumbo, the serpent god of Lake Victoria, extended across south-west Kenya. Mumbo condemned Christianity as rotten and vowed to cleanse the land of white people--colonial officials and missionaries--and their lackeys--chiefs and converts. It pledged to provide followers with abundant cattle and grain. Mumbo,...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- 19th century AD
- Introduction Oh, freedom! Oh, freedom! Oh, freedom all over met When I am free! An' befo' I'd be a slave, I'll be buried in my grave, An' go home to my Lord an' be free. ...
- Research articles 2000-12-01
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- Global sex survey shows South Africans careless of AIDS
- JOHANNESBURG AFP — A global online sex survey showed almost 60 percent of South Africans engaged in unprotected sex despite the fact that the country has one of the highest AIDS rates in the world. The results of the 2004 Durex global sex survey concluded that South Africans were...
- Research articles 2004-10-12
- South Africans take lead at WGC-World Cup
- KIAWAH ISLAND, United States AFP ? South Africans Trevor Immelman and Rory Sabbatini shot a 69 to take a two-stroke lead over the United States and France at the World Golf Championships-World Cup. Conditions were far calmer for the first alternate-shot format round than they had been for the...
- Research articles 2003-11-14
- Thirteen Africans die in bid to reach Spain
- FUERTEVENTURA, Spain AFP — Rescuers said they found 13 dead aboard a drifting immigrant boat carrying 43 Africans on a desperate attempt to reach Spanish territory. They were part of a tide of Africans being shipped in leaky boats across the icy sea between the Gulf of Guinea and...
- Research articles 2004-12-23
- One in three Africans suffers from malnutrition: UN
- ROME AFP — One out of three Africans suffers from malnutrition and a total of 852 million people in the world suffer from hunger. A World Food Program WFP report highlighted the plight of starving Africans and said that the financial contributions necessary for alleviating the continent's hunger problems...
- Research articles 2005-07-01
- Fannie Mae Foundation Sponsors PBS Series, Africans In America
- WASHINGTON--BUSINESS WIRE--July 30, 1998--The Fannie Mae Foundation Thursday announced sponsorship of the PBS series, AFRICANS IN AMERICA: America's Journey Through Slavery, the first comprehensive television history of the international events leading to the growth of racial slavery in the United States.
- Research articles 1998-07-30
- Blacks enraged by monkey business at AT&T - public outrage over monkey illustration used to represent Africans in corporate newsletter, Focus
- Adrawing that used a monkey to depict Africans, while characters from other countries were represented by humans, has focused attention on the fragile relationship between African-Americans and corporate America. The illustration, published in the September issue of Focus, AT&T's employee magazine, draws attention to the racial insensitivity that often exists...
- Research articles 1993-12-01
- Central Africans just want Aristide to go
- BANGUI AFP ? Central Africans questioned about the presence of Haiti's ousted leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide agree: he has to go. Now. His stay was "beginning to cause a stir and could create disagreement that would not be useful", said one woman working in a bank. Several opposition parties...
- Research articles 2004-03-07
- Africans in America: Journey Through Slavery
- Africans in America: Journey Through Slavery Smith, Patricia and Charles Johnson Harcourt Brace. October 400pp. ISBN 0-IS-100339-4. $30 This work is a companion to the PBS program created by a team at WGBH in Boston, to be aired in October and February and retells the familiar story of slavery from...
- Research articles 1998-10-01
- A democratic future: the challenge for South Africans - Chester A. Crocker's address before the City University of New - transcript
- A Democratic Future: The Challenge for South Africans A couple of days ago, in a speech in New York, Secretary Shultz laid out a set of ideas that collectively described America's vision of a free South Africa. Prior to that speech, we had spoken out often on what we...
- Research articles 1987-12-01
- Three Africans seriously hurt in Paris fire four days after fatal blaze
- PARIS AFP — Three people were seriously injured in a fire that swept through a building housing African immigrants in central Paris, a fire services spokesman said, four days after a blaze killed 17 Africans in the French capital. Some 100 firefighters and 30 vehicles tackled the fire which...
- Research articles 2005-08-29
- New Paris blaze kills seven Africans
- PARIS AFP — Seven people were killed and three seriously injured in a fire that swept through a building housing African immigrants in central Paris, fire services and police said, four days after a blaze killed 17 Africans in the French capital. One of those killed, a child, died...
- Research articles 2005-08-29
- Morocco repatriates west Africans with hearts set on Europe
- OUJDA, Morocco AFP — Authorities in Morocco provided a plane and buses to send home hundreds of west Africans who trekked to the Mediterranean country in hopes of crossing the sea to start new lives in Europe. "Flights begin during the morning from Oudja airport" in northeastern Morocco, an...
- Research articles 2005-10-10
- South Africans vote in local polls that put ANC to the test
- JOHANNESBURG AFP — South Africans voted in local elections in a major popularity test for the ruling African National Congress under fire from supporters demanding better housing and basic services. Africa's oldest liberation movement, the ANC remains certain to win the elections but has faced increasing criticism and angry...
- Research articles 2006-03-01
- South Africans Sabbatini, Immelman among four sharing PGA lead
- CHARLOTTE, United States AFP — South Africans Rory Sabbatini and Trevor Immelman joined Americans Jim Furyk and Bill Haas atop the leaderboard after the first round of the PGA Wachovia Championship. All four men fired a four-under par 68 to share the lead in the six million-dollar event, Sabbatini...
- Research articles 2006-05-04
- Furyk grabs US PGA lead with South Africans on his heels
- CHARLOTTE, United States AFP — US veteran Jim Furyk fired a four-under par 68 to grab a one-stroke lead over South Africans Retief Goosen and Trevor Immelman after three rounds of the US PGA Wachovia Championship. Furyk, seeking his 12th career triumph and first since last year's Western Open,...
- Research articles 2006-05-06
- In Rwanda, U2's Bono denounces 'dehumanization' of Africans
- NYAMATA, Rwanda AFP — Irish rock star and activist Bono decried western portrayals of Africans as "dehumanizing" and urged greater efforts to battle poverty and disease on the continent. On his first visit to genocide-scarred Rwanda, the U2 front-man was visibly disturbed after visiting a memorial to the 800,000...
- Research articles 2006-05-18
- Ghana victory over US advances Africans at World Cup
- NUREMBERG AFP — Stephen Appiah scored on a penalty kick in the second minute of first-half injury time to give Ghana a 2-1 World Cup victory over the United States, advancing the Africans to the second round. Ghana's World Cup debutantes also eliminated the Americans, who needed a victory...
- Research articles 2006-06-22
- South Africans fete Winnie Mandela on 70th birthday
- JOHANNESBURG AFP — South Africans showered praise on Nelson Mandela's former wife Winnie as the feisty anti-apartheid activist known as the "Mother of the Nation" celebrated her 70th birthday. The mass-circulation Star daily in an unusual gesture devoted an entire page of photographs capturing Winnie Mandela's tumultuous life under the...
- Research articles 2006-09-26
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