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West Africa Gold Coast Ii
Porto Novo, while looking like an overgrown village, is the official capital of Benin and is where their president resides. After many years of political turmoil, the country's future is looking positive and bright and the people have renewed ... [... more]
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Fauziya Kassindja
For Fauziya Kassindja, an idyllic childhood in Togo, West Africa, sheltered from the tribal practices of polygamy and genital mutilation, ended with her beloved father's sudden death. Forced into an arranged marriage at age seventeen, Fauziya was ... [... more]
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Joanne Taylor
Joanne Taylor was born in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, in 1952, and was raised in Cape Breton, the third of ten children. She met her husband, Robin, while teaching with CUSO in Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa. Joanne wrote occasionally for CBC ... [... more]
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Edward Gargan
Edward A. Gargan worked as a foreign correspondent and bureau chief for the New York Times in West Africa, China, India, and Hong Kong, was a magazine writer for the Los Angeles Times, and now covers Asia for Newsday ... [... more]
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Sobonfu Some
Sobonfu Somé, whose name means "keeper of ritual," was born and raised in Burkina Faso, the former Upper Volta. She is an initiated member of the Dagara tribe of West Africa. Sobonfu and her husband, Malidoma Somé, ... [... more]
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Jane Kurtz
Jane Kurtz grew up in East Africa and has recently traveled and spoken at schools in both East and West Africa. On two childhood visits to the United States, she found many things to worry her. (One was black widow ... [... more]
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Bellagio
American military officer, Butler Ames, purchased and renovated the villa and gardens and in 1974, it was purchased by Mount Everest explorer Guido Monzino. He filled it with rich collections from his travels to Nepal, Tibet and West Africa. ... [... more]
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Peter Brazaitis
From catching alligators in the reservoirs of New York and capturing giant crocodiles in Venezuela and giant frogs in West Africa to finding mummified human heads in a Bronx apartment, eels on a bus, cobras on the ... [... more]
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