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When the Bible said that "the thief only came to steal, kill and destroy.... ", we often send our minds on wild goose chase and pray against a certain Satan whom we don't know as the cause of our woes forgetting how the Europeans came to Africa to steal, kill…
In the rough seas off West Africa, fishing isn’t just for the brave—it’s a tradition that shapes coastal communities and their respect for nature.
Antique Maps of Africa. Gallery of authentic historic and rare maps of Africa from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
The American yam is not the food it says it is. How that came to be is a story of robbery, reinvention, and identity.
1747 (undated) 1 : 10134000 This is the earliest English map of Tibet, engraved for Braddock Mead's A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels, published under his pseudonym 'John Green' by Thomas Astley in 1747. It is one of the few maps of the region to rely (ultimately) on local sources - although the mapmaker's claim that the map was 'drawn from that made by Lama Mathematicians' does not include the chain of Jesuit missionaries and French cartographers linking the 'Lama Mathematicians' to the 'English engraver'. The map covers an area from northern India (Delhi i...