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Incoming artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah has bold plans for Center Stage
Kwame Kwei-Armah has a way of pulling others into his gravitational field, whirling them around and then depositing them in a place at some distance from where they started out.
People leave an encounter with Center Stage's incoming artistic director...Tags: England, Nick Drake, 50 Cent, Colleges and Universities, Arts
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Philip D. Curtin
The Washington PostPhilip D. Curtin, a retired Johns Hopkins University professor and a historian of the African slave trade who was instrumental in changing the way schools teach the subject, died June 4 at Chester County Hospital in West Chester, Pa., of pneumonia. He was...Tags: History, Hospitals and Clinics, Colleges and Universities, Harvard University, World War II (1939-1945)
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Surviving on one dollar a day
Sun Foreign StaffDAROU SALAM DIOUF, Senegal - The tiny bundle of currency - one 500-franc Central African note folded carefully around two 100-franc coins -- equals about $1.40. But Khady Mbaye clutches it in her right hand with seemingly all her might, as if she were...Tags: Tomatoes, Water Restrictions, Productivity, Family, Poverty
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Powerful symbol, weak in facts
Sun Foreign StaffGOREE ISLAND, Senegal - Standing in a narrow doorway opening onto the Atlantic Ocean, tour guide Aladji Ndiaye asked a visitor to this Senegalese island's Slave House to imagine the millions of shackled Africans who stepped through it, forced onto...Tags: History, Bill Clinton, John Murphy, United Nations, Monuments and Heritage Sites
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'Face of terror not true faith of Islam,' Bush declares
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - Trying to stave off an anti-Arab backlash, President Bush visited the Islamic Center here yesterday, saying Muslims should be treated with respect because "the face of terror is not the true faith of Islam." After an hourlong meeting with...Tags: Minority Groups, Mesa, Murder, Executive Branch, Criminal Laws
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Locarno open doors to Sub-Saharan Africa: Guests include Idrissa Ouedraogo, Gaston Kabore
VarietyROME Switzerland's Locarno Film Festival has selected pics for its Open Doors co-production mart, dedicated this year to French-speaking Sub-Saharan Africa. Prominent African directors on hand will include Burkina Faso helmer Idrissa Ouedraogo, known for...Tags: Burkina Faso, Movies, Genesis (music group), Cameroon, Mali
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Senegal's president concedes defeat; victory for African democracy
World NowSenegal's incumbent president concedes defeat: Incumbent Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade's move to swiftly concede defeat after Sunday's presidential run-off election was seen as big step for African democracy, in a ieighborhhod better know for... -
Mali is cut off by its neighbors. What will blocking the borders do?
World NowA coalition of West African nations is closing off the borders of Mali, condemning it for a recent military coup that ousted its president. How could that affect the landlocked country? Blocking the borders means that Mali will be starved for gas and... -
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