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The Year of Africa	South Africa: Twenty-Five Years Since Apartheid	Sudan in Crisis
A Century of HIV	A New Congo Crisis?	All Politics is Local: Understanding Boko Haram
Who Owns the Nile? Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia’s History-Changing Dam	"Y'En A Marre!" (We're Fed Up!): Senegal in the Season of Discontent	The Other Half of the African Sky: Women’s Struggles in Zimbabwe
The Soccer World Goes to South Africa: Sport and the Making of Modern Africa	Pirates of Puntland, Somalia	'The World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis': Understanding the Darfur Conflict
Beyond 'Tribes': Violence and Politics in Kenya	Africa's Medical History Revealed	Revisiting Long Histories of the Reparations Debate
Inequality After Apartheid	A New View of West African Empires	Fifty Years and Counting
When Ethiopia Stunned the World	Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers, and Empire	Idi Amin's Coup d’État, Uganda 1971
A Postcard from Livingstonia, Malawi	January 2020: “No Victor and No Vanquished” - Fifty Years after the Biafran War	October 2019: The Rumble in the Jungle
Sudan: Popular Protests, Today and Yesterday	Secrecy and Celibacy: The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse	Who Owns the Past? Museums and Cultural Heritage Repatriation
HIV/AIDS: Past, Present and Future	Genocide and Justice in Rwanda	August 2018: The 1998 East African Embassy Bombings
Top Ten Origins: Zombies: The Undead Shuffle	Searching for Wakanda: The African Roots of the Black Panther Story	March 2017: The Evian Accords: An Uncertain Peace
Sub-Saharan Africa	Emperor Haile Selassie I Returns Triumphant to Ethiopia	December 2015: Dian Fossey: Conservationist in the Mist
March 2014: Blind Aid: Lessons (Not Learned) from the Ethiopian Famine	1/28/14: Contested Waters: Captain Phillips and the Hijacking of the Maersk Alabama

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