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“There is no landlord in the Mbôngi system of economy, but only the ‘Kânda’—the whole community. The land, source of life and happiness, belongs to the community. The chief of the land is only the manager of community affairs and properties, not a ‘land lord.’ The rights to use of the community land belong to all, no matter what their…
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Kiswahili: Ujamaa (uchumi wa ushirika): Kujenga na kudumisha maduka yetu wenyewe, maduka na biashara nyinginezo na kufaidika nazo kwa pamoja.
English: Ujamaa (cooperative economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together.
Español: Ujamaa (economía cooperativa): Construir y mantener…
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Unearthing a Long Ignored African Writing System, One Researcher Finds African History, by Africans
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Unearthing a Long Ignored African Writing System, One Researcher Finds African History, by Africans
When BU’s Fallou Ngom found a note written by his late father, in a language that looked like Arabic but sounded like Wolof, it opened the door to a lifetime of discovery in African language and history.
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American life expectancy is now at its lowest in nearly two decades
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American life expectancy is now at its lowest in nearly two decades
A new report shows the pandemic and the overdose crisis helped push down the average life expectancy in the U.S. for a second year in a row.
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“You see in the organizations of Marcus Garvey and Elijah Muhammad, not just organizations centered around some special concern, just concerned with jobs or just with the legal aspects of black people or only with the education of black people, but organizations that were concerned with all aspects that had to do with the advancement of black…
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