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March and Braai: The strange loops of South African history
3+ hour, 56+ min ago (105+ words) Contemplating the March and Braai story is like looking at an Escher painting with its weird series of cyclical steps, where moving through hierarchical levels unexpectedly brings you right back to where you started. So, forwards we must march. And…...
King Oyo, once world's youngest monarch, buried in western Uganda
4+ hour, 22+ min ago (663+ words) Ugandan king Oyo Nyimba, long the world’s youngest monarch, was buried on Saturday among the tombs of his royal forebears as his Tooro Kingdom looked to put a bitter succession battle behind it. Oyo’s appointed successor, the news anchor Edward…...
A kingdom within a republic: Inside Uganda’s Buganda | News | Al Jazeera
1+ hour, 43+ min ago (1207+ words) The kingdom’s traditions and institutions have endured through colonial rule, independence and decades of upheaval Kampala, Uganda – Uganda became independent from British colonial rule in 1962, but independence did not mean the end of its traditional kingdoms. The new republic inherited…...
World wants better map depiction of Africa. America said no. | Opinion
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Ancient mines, Indian diplomacy and the power of a nation
10+ hour, 25+ min ago (463+ words) The history of mining and electricity is deeply intertwined, connecting South Africa's Kimberley, the first city in the Southern Hemisphere with electric streetlights, to India's ancient Hutti Gold Mines KIMBERLEY, IN SOUTH AFRICA’S Northern Cape province, became the first city…...
Ugandan king laid to rest
14+ hour, 10+ min ago (136+ words) Qatar Tribune dpaKampalaNine days after his death, the man believed to have been the worldâs youngest reigning monarch was buried in western Uganda on Saturday.King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV of the traditional Tooro kingdom died of…...
The 12-Year Journey Of A Smuggled Dong Son Drum Back To Vietnam
2+ hour, 14+ min ago (390+ words) For Vietnam, a Dong Son drum is not merely a rare artifact. It is the tangible soul of its 2,000-year-old civilization. When this ancient bronze treasure was intercepted at a French airport in 2014, it set in motion a sustained diplomatic…...
New world map makes Africa look bigger: what’s the fuss about? Cartographers explain
37+ min ago (570+ words) We asked Jack Swab and Derek Alderman, cartographers and geographers who study the social and communicative power of maps, to explain what’s going on. A cartographer’s job is to choose from the hundreds of different map projections, and consider where…...
Australia to look bigger on new world map after historic UN vote
7+ hour, 12+ min ago (751+ words) Australia is about to look its true size after a historic vote from the UN this week that dramatically changes the way we see the world. Australia is set to look noticeably larger on world maps after the United Nations…...
Chanting Jewish and Muslim prayers one Friday night in Morocco
13+ hour, 28+ min ago (220+ words) Some years ago, I participated in a delegation sent by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., to Morocco to sign important agreements with its government pertaining to the Holocaust period, guaranteeing access to historic documents and records. But…...