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Americans could learn a thing or two from Africans’ history of resisting economic structural adjustment programs.

Could learn Resisting economic Structural adjustment
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When you think of Nigerian people, you think of the Big Three: Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa/Fulani peoples.But Nigeria, the most populated country in Africa, has more than 200 ethnic groups.

You think Big three Most populated Country
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Countering the false, long-held belief of Christianity being a "white man's religion" shoved down on Africans when in reality, Christianity was in Africa long before it reached the UK and many European countries.

Countering The false Long held belief Christianity being
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Underlying the high levels of domestic violence is gender inequality,alcohol usage, unemployment, poverty.

Underlying High levels Domestic violence Gender inequality
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Violence against women and children is everybody’s business, and companies can do a lot to contribute.

Violence Against women Children Everybody's business
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Biafran War Memories is a lifelong project. As long as I have breath, I will keep on capturing these stories, preserving these important memories.

War memories Lifelong project Have breath On capturing
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Africa, stop ruining your future by exporting needed human capital.

Stop ruining Your future Exporting needed Human capital
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My childhood dream was to live and work in Africa. I’m living my dream.

Childhood dream To live Work
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Multilingualism is part of the experience of growing up in Africa.

Multilingualism Is part The experience Growing up
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I've seen incredible things, met incredible people, reported incredible stories. I've gained life lessons and wisdom that have made me a better person.

Incredible things Incredible people Gained Life lessons
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People who truly love us don't threaten us with ANYTHING! They want the best for us and love seeing us happy.

People who Love us Threaten us They want
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So much history..framed by heartbreak, tears and hope Then more heartbreak.If anything, this history confirms that this is OUR country.

Much history Framed by Heartbreak Tears
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To be a girl and a woman in this country is an act of courage.

A girl A woman This country An act
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Does anybody else try to suppress a cough when in public? These days I squeeze out a cough the same way I used to stealth fart in pre-Covid times.

To suppress A cough In public Squeeze out
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Learning starts with failure; the first failure is the beginning of education.

Learning Starts Failure Education
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The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power.

Work Art Beauty Power
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The reality is that changes are coming... They must come. You must share in bringing them.

Reality Changes Come Share
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Events are less important than our responses to them.

Events Important Responses
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It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

Failure Children Weapon Talents
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The writer must not invent. The legend on the license must read: NONE OF THIS WAS MADE UP.

Writer Invent License Read
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To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more, and over and over.

Writer Deal Satisfied
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Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

Journalism Readers History Live
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Mankind must destroy anti-humanity before it becomes extinct itself.

Mankind Destroy Humanity Extinct
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our life is short, we don’t live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile

Life Short Live
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Friends are the fruitcake of life - some nutty, some soaked in alcohol, some sweet.

Friends Life Sweet
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We are defining the boundaries of normality by tearing apart the people outside it.

Defining Boundaries Normality People
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The powerful, crazy, cruel people were now us. It felt like we were soldiers making war on other people’s flaws, and there had suddenly been an escalation in hostilities.

Powerful People War Hostilities
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What we believe is constantly reinforced by people who believe the same thing.

Believe Reinforced People
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You combine insecurity and ambition, and you get an inability to say no to things.

Insecurity Ambition Inability Say no
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But we know that people are complicated and have a mixture of flaws and talents and sins. So why do we pretend that we don’t?

People Flaws Talents Sin
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Feeling no remorse must be a blessing when all you have are your memories

Feeling Remorse Blessing Memories
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If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.

Want True Power Boring
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I’ve always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn’t? What if it is built on insanity?

Society Rational thing Built Insanity
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We need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position.

Think Vengeance Anger Position
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If you couldn't kill your adversaries, or keep them imprisoned for ever, there was surely only one option left in the Colonel Alexander canon: you change their minds.

Adversaries Option Change Mind
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Facebook is where you lie to your friends, Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers.

Facebook Friends Twitter Strangers
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Shame internalized can lead to agony.

Shame Lead Agony
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Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.

Political Religious Economies Society
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We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland.

Creating World Survive Bland
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Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing.

Solve Mystery Enjoy Writing
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When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.

Society Ideals People Behavior
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Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.

People Think Technology Old
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Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.

Honesty Privilege Insulting Redress
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The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.

Greater Controversy Manners
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Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette

Freedom Rules Work Etiquette
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Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

Enforce Morality Immorality Discreet
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We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

Charming Fresh Civilized Society
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It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

Impressive Discover Qualities Help
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Etiquette does not render you defenseless. If it did, even I wouldn't subscribe to it. But rudeness in retaliation for rudeness just doubles the amount of rudeness in the world.

Etiquette Defenseless Rudeness World
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People read informality as, 'Do whatever you feel like,' and whatever you feel like might be disastrous.

People Informality Feel Disastrous
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