To modern day, much debate on the factors of the slave trade have led historians to re-interpret the Atlantic slave trade in Western Africa. ... From A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels, there's a painting of Don Alvaro, King of Kong, sitting on his throne surrounded by bodyguards with Dutch emissaries kneeling in front of him. ... Many factors have led historians to re-interpret the Atlantic slave trade in Western Africa during the Early Modern Period. ...

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The museum does note that times and attitudes are changing and that mostly black scholars have pushed for Egypt to be recognized as an advanced African civilization that has customs and language patterns similar to western and sub-Saharan Africa. ... The men of one tribe spend several hours adorning themselves with face paint, feathered headdresses and jewelry to parade in front of the tribe's women flashing their teeth and bulging their eyes in a courtship ritual. ...

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These words, spoken by Colonel Kurtz in the Vietnam film Apocalypse Now, describe the disgust Kurtz has at American and Western involvement in Indochina. ... When speaking about the port cities established by the European settlers and traders, Marlow said that their "names seemed to belong to some sordid farce acted in front of a sinister back-cloth... "(28) Marlow realizes that being trapped on the ship, and therefore trapped within the confines of Western ideals and thoughts, has kept him "away from the truth of things within the mournful and senseless delusion...

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Just last month . there was this terrible earthquake in Algeria where 12,000 people died that made the front page of every paper, yet some 35,000 small children died that same day needlessly from the silent emergency "almost triple that, but it did not make the headlines.""... More than 60 percent of the population in Zimbabwe's western region of Hwange requires food relief. ...

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The word proverb comes from the Latin proverbium (pro meaning "in front of, on behalf of" and verbium meaning "word"), suggesting that a proverb takes the place of ordinary words. ... (Powe) In Western African cultures, griots were depended on by the culture to educate. ...

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Surely the mere enjoyment of such things as railways and telegraphs and the like do not necessarily prove their possessors to be in the front rank of civilised nations." ... (NLAE, p.12) We can see how Western education has begun to alienate members of the clan, but it is perhaps the arrival of Christianity which has the most profound effect on the unity of the tribe. ... However, there is a sense in which Obi cannot be completely blamed for his lack of loyalty, and again we see how Western values have caused alienation from the tribe. ...

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