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15-18	June 2007 Readings/Article Imagine Africa By Breyten Breytenbach SEE ALSO: Africa; Congresses; Imagination; Pan-Africanism PDF IMAGES
19-23	June 2007 Readings/Article Pure product By Binyavanga Wainaina SEE ALSO: Africa; Wainaina, Binyavanga; Biography; Economic assistance; Humanitarian assistance; Non-governmental organizations PDF IMAGES
27-28	November 2005 Readings/Article Things come together SEE ALSO: Africa PDF IMAGES
25	August 2005 Readings/Article Hoppy meal SEE ALSO: Africa; Cookery; Locusts PDF TEXT IMAGES
100	October 2001 Article Nasdaq's continental drift By Ken Silverstein SEE ALSO: Africa; Developing countries; Maps; Valuation PDF IMAGES
24	December 2000 Readings/Article For your misinformation SEE ALSO: AIDS (Disease); Africa; Behold a pale horse (Book); Conspiracies; HIV (Viruses); Cooper, William PDF IMAGES
22	November 1999 Readings/Article A prayer for Africa By Yaguine Koita and Fodé Tourakana SEE ALSO: Africa; Guinea; 1960; Stowaways PDF IMAGES
92	July 1999 Article [Untitled Article] By Sarah Smith SEE ALSO: Africa; Maps; 1960 PDF IMAGES
17-18	August 1994 Readings/Article Africa's fashion victims By Emily Prager SEE ALSO: Africa; Clothing; Clothing and dress; Mandela, Nelson PDF IMAGES
43-51	May 1990 Article But what about Africa? On the global economy's lost continent By Richard J. Barnet SEE ALSO: Africa; Economic assistance; Kenya; 1960; 1963-; World Bank PDF IMAGES
18-19	October 1986 Readings/Article Apartheid: Could things be worse? By William Minter SEE ALSO: Africa; Apartheid; 1960; 1961-; 1978-1989; Political stability; South Africa PDF IMAGES
71-72	May 1985 Article Africa brought home: Heart of Darkness and its journey downriver By Edward Hoagland SEE ALSO: Africa; Criticism and interpretation; Heart of darkness (Book); Conrad, Joseph; Visitors, Foreign PDF IMAGES
22-27	September 1978 Article Seminar in African diplomacy: In which Americans might take notes from the French By Kenneth L. Adelman SEE ALSO: Africa; American influences; Young, Andrew; Career in diplomacy; Diplomatic and consular service, American; Diplomatic and consular service, French; French influences PDF IMAGES
15-18	June 1977 The easy chair/Article The black man's burden By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Africa; Haley, Alex; Young, Andrew; Foreign public opinion, American; Race identity; Views on Africa PDF IMAGES
15-16	June 1974 Article Death trapped in a tree By Timothy Dickinson SEE ALSO: Africa; Asia; Developing countries; Famines; Overpopulation PDF IMAGES
83-89	April 1974 Article African journey By Angus Davidson (Trans.) and Alberto Moravia SEE ALSO: Africa; Moravia, Alberto; Dance; Journeys—Africa; Kenya; Nigeria PDF IMAGES
124-130	November 1966 Washington insight/Article The view from Africa By Clayton Fritchey SEE ALSO: Africa; Central Intelligence Agency; Foreign public opinion, African; 1960; Violence; Voice of America PDF IMAGES
74-86	October 1966 Article Enter Gambia, laughing: The unusual birth of Africa's smallest new nation By Berkeley Rice SEE ALSO: Africa; Career as prime minister of Gambia; Colonies; Jawara, Dawda Kairaba, Sir PDF IMAGES
98-104	November 1965 Article What passes for American news in Africa By John Strohmeyer SEE ALSO: Africa; Cold War; Foreign public opinion, African; Freedom of the press; Kenya; Propaganda, Anti-American; United States Information Agency PDF IMAGES
100-105	March 1962 Public and personal/Article Which friends come first? By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Africa; Civil War, 1960-1965; 1960; 1961-1963; United Nations; Zaire PDF IMAGES
29-37	May 1961 Article The kingdom of silence: The truth about Africa's most oppressed colony SEE ALSO: Africa; Angola; Colonies; Forced labor; 1933-1974; 1961-1963; Portugal; Portuguese PDF IMAGES
53-58	April 1961 Article Africans beat on our college doors By Albert G. Sims SEE ALSO: Administration; Africa; African students; Career in educational fund raising; Colonies; Educational fund raising; Kenya; Student exchange programs; To 1963; Mboya, Tom PDF IMAGES
44-50	February 1961 Article Can de Gaulle avoid a civil war? Letter to a French friend By George Steiner SEE ALSO: Africa; Algeria; Career as French president; Gaulle, Charles de; Colonies; 1958-; Revolution, 1954-1962 PDF IMAGES
48-54	May 1960 Article The new Africa: A guide and a proposal By Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson SEE ALSO: Africa; Colonization; Economic assistance, American; 1945-1960; Pan-Africanism PDF IMAGES
53	May 1960 Article Books for Africans By Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson SEE ALSO: Africa; American books abroad; Textbooks for foreign speakers PDF IMAGES
82-91	April 1960 Article Where democracy doesn't work . . . yet By Erskine B. Childers SEE ALSO: Africa; Afro-Asian politics; Arab countries; Asia; Democracy; Economic development PDF IMAGES
67-72	August 1959 Article Why de Gaulle needs more miracles By Edwin Newman SEE ALSO: Africa; Algeria; Career as French president; Gaulle, Charles de; Colonies; 1958-; Portraits; Revolution, 1954-1962; Separation of powers PDF IMAGES
56-63	July 1954 Article Africa's modern slavery By Basil Davidson SEE ALSO: Africa; Angola; Davidson, Basil; Colonies; Forced labor; Nevinson, Henry Woodd; Journeys—Angola; Portugal; Portuguese PDF IMAGES
90	May 1953 Article Eh—? SEE ALSO: Africa PDF IMAGES
32-41	February 1952 Article Africa is next By Theodore Harold White SEE ALSO: Africa; Africa, North; Africa, Sub-Saharan; Colonies; Foreign relations administration; Marshall Plan; Muslims; 1884-1960; Protectorates PDF IMAGES
68-73	December 1948 Article Africa in the service of Europe? By C. Hartley (Clinton Hartley) Grattan SEE ALSO: Africa; Colonies; Economic development; Foreign economic relations; 1945-1960 PDF IMAGES
67-78	October 1948 Article The end of Marshal Rommel By William Harlan Hale SEE ALSO: Africa; Africa, North; Campaigns; Career as officer in German army; Rommel, Erwin; Last years PDF IMAGES
159	January 1945 Article Modern Africa By Mazi Mbonu Ojike SEE ALSO: Africa; Anthropology; Nigeria PDF IMAGES
488-497	April 1943 Article The future of Africa By C. Hartley (Clinton Hartley) Grattan SEE ALSO: Africa PDF IMAGES
148-156	January 1943 Article Letter from the African front By William I. Riegelman SEE ALSO: Africa; Ambulance drivers; American Field Service; Career in American Field Service; Medical care; Personal narratives, American; Riegelman, William I. PDF IMAGES
420-425	September 1938 Article Brothers to the gods: Germans, Englishmen, and Frenchmen as colonists By Brian O'Brien SEE ALSO: Africa; Cameroon; Colonies PDF IMAGES
520-529	April 1938 Article Colonies for Germany? By Willson Woodside SEE ALSO: Africa; Colonies; Colonization; Germans; Territorial expansion PDF IMAGES
118	December 1935 The lion's mouth/Article As we were saying . . . SEE ALSO: Africa; Colonies; Territorial expansion PDF IMAGES
30-39	June 1934 Article Flight across Africa By Maurice Samuel SEE ALSO: Africa; Air travel PDF IMAGES
502-505	September 1933 The lion's mouth/Article Oasis By R. Hernekin, pseud. Baptist SEE ALSO: Africa; Commerce; Egypt; Identity; Jewish way of life; Jews; Port Said PDF IMAGES
55-64	June 1932 Article These African explorers By Herbert Best SEE ALSO: Administration; Africa; Colonies; Explorers; In literature; Nigeria; Travelers' writings; Visitors, Foreign PDF IMAGES
733-744	November 1930 Article Missions and the life of Africa By Julian Huxley SEE ALSO: Africa; Interdenominational cooperation; Missions; Western influences PDF IMAGES
619-623	October 1930 Article Some African animals By Julian Huxley SEE ALSO: Africa; Animal-plant relationships; Ants; Insects; Termites; Zoology PDF IMAGES
295-304	February 1927 Article Salt comes to Timbuctoo By Leland Hall SEE ALSO: Africa; Arabs; Colonies; Journeys—Mali—Tombouctou; Hall, Leland; Mali; Salt industry and trade; Tombouctou; Tombouctou (Mali) PDF IMAGES
143	December 1923 Editor's drawer/Article A new variety SEE ALSO: Africa; Hailstorms; Tall tales PDF IMAGES
735-749	November 1923 Article Some kings, a khedive, and a few sultans By E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell SEE ALSO: Africa; Ahmad Shah; Anecdotes; Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander); Hadji Mohammed Jamalulhiram; Journeys—Africa; Journeys—Orient; 'Abbas II, Khedive of Egypt; Faysal I, King of Iraq; Vajiravudh, King of Siam; Kwaka Dua; Orient; Portraits; Sayyid Ali bin Hamoud bin Mohammed; Sultan of Djokjakarta; Sultan of Keotei; Mehmed VI, Sultan of the Turks; Mehmet V, Sultan of the Turks PDF IMAGES
26-36	June 1906 Article Through the African wilderness By Henry Woodd Nevinson SEE ALSO: Africa; Colonies; Nevinson, Henry Woodd; Journeys—Africa; Portugal PDF IMAGES
327-337	February 1906 Article The slave-trade of to-day. Conclusion.—The islands of doom By Henry Woodd Nevinson SEE ALSO: Africa; Cocoa trade; Colonies; Forced labor; Portugal; Sao Tome and Principe; Slave-trade; Slavery; Slaves PDF IMAGES
237-246	January 1906 Article The slave-trade of to-day. Part VI.—The slaves at sea By Henry Woodd Nevinson SEE ALSO: Africa; Colonies; Forced labor; Nevinson, Henry Woodd; Journeys—Africa; Portugal; Sao Tome and Principe; Slave-trade; Slavery PDF IMAGES
114-122	December 1905 Article The slave-trade of to-day. Part V.—Down to the coast By Henry Woodd Nevinson SEE ALSO: Africa; Angola; Colonies; Forced labor; Portugal; Slave-trade; Slavery PDF IMAGES
849-858	November 1905 Article The slave-trade of to-day. Part IV.—“The hungry country” By Henry Woodd Nevinson SEE ALSO: Africa; Africa, Central; Colonies; Portugal; Slave-trade; Slavery PDF IMAGES
668-676	October 1905 Article The slave-trade of to-day. Part III By Henry Woodd Nevinson SEE ALSO: Africa; Angola; Colonies; Colonization; Forced labor; Nevinson, Henry Woodd; Journeys—Africa; Portugal; Slave-trade; Slavery PDF IMAGES
535-544	September 1905 Article The new slave-trade. Introductory II.—West-African plantation life to-day By Henry Woodd Nevinson SEE ALSO: Africa; Angola; Contract labor; Forced labor; Nevinson, Henry Woodd; Journeys—Africa; Slavery PDF IMAGES
341-350	August 1905 Article The new slave-trade. Introductory [I].—Down the West Coast By Henry Woodd Nevinson SEE ALSO: Africa; Africa, West; Colonization; Forced labor; Nevinson, Henry Woodd; Journeys—Africa; Slavery PDF IMAGES
373-388	February 1900 Article The Congo State and Central-African problems By Demetrius Charles de Kavanagh Boulger SEE ALSO: Administration; Africa; Africa, Central; Africans; Belgium; Colonies; Congo (Brazzaville); 1884-1960 PDF IMAGES
304-310	January 1900 Article British and Dutch in South Africa By Sydney Brooks SEE ALSO: Africa; Colonies; English-Afrikaner relations; 1836-1909; Social policy; South Africa; South African War, 1899-1902; Transvaal (South Africa); War of 1880-1881 PDF IMAGES
421-432	August 1897 Article White man's Africa. Part X.—British and Boer government By Poultney Bigelow SEE ALSO: Africa; Afrikaners; Colonies; English-Afrikaner relations; Jameson's Raid, 1895-1896; 1880-1910; South Africa; Transvaal (South Africa); War of 1880-1881 PDF IMAGES
224-241	July 1897 Article White man's Africa. Part IX.—Natal: A colonial paradise By Poultney Bigelow SEE ALSO: Africa; Career as prime minister of KwaZulu-Natal; Colonies; English-Afrikaner relations; Escombe, Harry; KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa); South Africa; Zulu (African people) PDF IMAGES
626-643	March 1897 Article White man's Africa. Part V.—The last of a great black nation By Poultney Bigelow SEE ALSO: Africa; Moshesh, Basuto Chief; Career as governor of Lesotho; Colonies; Theal, George McCall; Lagden; Sotho (African people); Tomb; Views on integration in South Africa PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 172-185	January 1897 Article White man's Africa. Part III.—Portuguese progress in South Africa By Poultney Bigelow SEE ALSO: Africa; Colonies; Mozambique; Portugal; Portuguese; Slave-trade; Zulu (African people) PDF IMAGES
954-959	May 1896 Article The English crisis SEE ALSO: Africa; British occupation, 1882-1936; Colonies; Egypt; 1837-1901; 1871-1918 PDF IMAGES
613-632	March 1893 Article Slavery and the slave trade in Africa By Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley SEE ALSO: Africa; Africa, East; Africa, North; Antislavery movements; Career as slaver; Livingstone, David; Slave-trade; Slave traders; Tib, Tippu; Views on slave-trade PDF IMAGES
924-931	November 1891 Article Africa, and the European powers By Arthur Silva White SEE ALSO: Africa; Colonization; Imperialism; 1871-1918 PDF IMAGES
546-558	March 1886 Article Africa's awakening By David Ker SEE ALSO: Africa; Africa, Northeast; Barrages; Congo River; Knowledge—Nile River; Nile River; Baker, Samuel White, Sir PDF IMAGES
936-938	November 1878 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Africa; Career in exploration; Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton); Through the dark continent: or, the sources of the Nile around the great lakes of equatorial Africa, and down the Livingstone river to the Atlantic ocean (Book) PDF IMAGES
667-686	October 1878 Article Through the dark continent By John Russell Young SEE ALSO: Africa; Explorers; Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton); Journeys—Africa; Portraits PDF IMAGES
282-283	July 1874 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Africa; Livingstone, David; Death and burial; Explorers; National characteristics, English; Wolseley, Garnet Wolseley, Viscount PDF IMAGES
779-781	October 1872 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Africa; Africa, Central; Livingstone, David; Explorers; Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton); Journeys—Africa, Central; New York herald (American newspaper); Reporters and reporting; Slave-trade PDF IMAGES
780	October 1869 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Africa; Missionaries PDF IMAGES
164-174	January 1869 Article Paul du Chaillu again By Alfred H. (Alfred Hudson) Guernsey SEE ALSO: Africa; Journeys—Africa; Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni); Wild life under the Equator. Narrated for young people (Book); Zoology PDF IMAGES
582-594	April 1868 Article Du Chaillu, gorillas, and cannibals By Alfred H. (Alfred Hudson) Guernsey SEE ALSO: Africa; Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni); Stories of the gorilla country (Book) PDF IMAGES
65-75	June 1866 Article Henry Barth, the African traveler By William Leonard Gage SEE ALSO: Africa; Biography; Explorers; Barth, Heinrich PDF IMAGES
542-543	September 1865 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Africa PDF IMAGES
281-292	August 1864 Article A club-man in Africa By Charles Nordhoff SEE ALSO: Africa; Journeys—Africa; Savage Africa; being the narrative of a tour in equatorial, southwestern and northwestern Africa (Book); Reade, W. Winwood; Reade, William Winwood PDF IMAGES
577-596	April 1864 Article Journey to the source of the Nile By Alfred H. (Alfred Hudson) Guernsey SEE ALSO: Africa; Explorers; Speke, John Hanning; Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile (Book); Nile River PDF IMAGES
577-595	April 1863 Article Another African hunter By Alfred H. (Alfred Hudson) Guernsey SEE ALSO: Africa; African hunting and adventure from Natal to the Zambesi (Book); Hunting; Journeys—Africa; Baldwin, William Charles PDF IMAGES
412-413	August 1861 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: Africa; Explorations in Africa, 1861; Gorilla; Gray; Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni); Views on Du Chaillu PDF IMAGES
420-421	February 1861 Our foreign bureau/Article Our foreign bureau SEE ALSO: Africa; Antislavery movements; Philanthropists; Slave-trade PDF IMAGES
222-235	July 1856 Article Lion-slayers and man-eaters SEE ALSO: Africa; Career in lion hunting; Gérard, Jules; Lion attacks; Lion hunting; Lions; Gordon-Cumming, Roualeyn PDF IMAGES
271	July 1852 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Africa; Bustles PDF IMAGES
846-848	November 1850 Article The doom of the slaver. An English story of the African blockade SEE ALSO: Africa; Mozambique Channel; Slave-trade PDF IMAGES

74-76	June 1982 Books/Review Was my face red: The novel of embarrassment By Frances Taliaferro Thomas SEE ALSO: A good man in Africa (Book); Africa; Diplomatic and consular service, British; Boyd, William PDF IMAGES
69-72	January 1980 Books/Review Naipaul's losers By Paul Zweig SEE ALSO: A bend in the river (Book); Africa; East Indians; Naipaul, V.S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad) PDF IMAGES
96-99	December 1976 Review African comedy By Björn Kumm SEE ALSO: Africa; Motion pictures; Sembène, Ousmane PDF IMAGES
109	January 1961 Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A burnt-out case (Book); Africa; Africa A to Z: a guide for travelers—armchair and actual (Book); Africa speaks (Book); Moorehead, Alan; China court (Book); Apter, David Ernest; Gann, Ernest K.; Fate is the hunter (Book); Greene, Graham; Duffy, James; Reeves, R. Ambrose (Richard Ambrose); Manners, Robert A. (Robert Alan); Kane, Robert S.; Godden, Rumer; The African encyclopedia (Book); The shooting at Sharpesville: the agony of South Africa (Book); The White Nile (Book) PDF IMAGES
472-474	August 1897 Editor's study/Review — (II) By Charles Dudley Warner SEE ALSO: Africa; Africa, Sub-Saharan; Antiquities; Egyptian influences; Dubois, Félix; Mali; Timbuctoo the mysterious (Book); Western influences PDF IMAGES
146-147	June 1895 Editor's study/Review — (I) By Charles Dudley Warner SEE ALSO: Africa; Alone with the hairy Ainu (Book); Landor, Arnold Henry Savage; Civilization, Western; Cultural assimilation; Hokkaido; Indigenous peoples PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 327	July 1893 Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: Africa; Livingstone, David; Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton); Slave-trade; Slavery and the slave trade in Africa (Book); Views on slave-trade PDF IMAGES

Aug 2006	Number of African giant pouched rats that Belgian researchers have trained to sniff out explosives: 36 Number of wasps that a Georgia engineering professor says he has trained to do this: 3,000 Seconds he says it takes to train each wasp: 30	Harper's Index Source 1: Apopo (Antwerp, Belgium) Source 2: Glen Rains, University of Georgia (Tifton)
May 2006	Maximum number of Africans brought to America in any single year during the trans-Atlantic slave trade: 35,000	Harper's Index Source: David Eltis, Emory University (Atlanta)
May 2006	Average number of Africans who have legally emigrated to the United States each year since 2000: 55,000	Harper's Index Source: Office of Immigration Statistics (Washington)
Mar 2006	Number of weapons that have been turned into tools for African farmers by a British nonprofit since 2001: 2,200	Harper's Index Source: APT Enterprise Development (Moreton-in-Marsh, England)
Oct 2005	Estimated amount of African wealth held in foreign accounts, expressed as a percentage of African GDP: 172	Harper's Index Source: U.N. Economic Commission for Africa (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
Sep 2005	Amount the U.S. spent last year on mosquito nets to fight malaria in Africa : $4,000,000	Harper's Index Source: USAID (Washington)
Nov 2004	Factor by which the annual number of Sahara dust storms has increased in the last 50 years : 10	Harper's Index Source: Andrew Goudie (Oxford, England)
Oct 2004	Rank of this year’s desert-locust plague in northern Africa among the world’s worst in 15 years : 1	Harper's Index Source: U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (Rome)
Nov 2003	Cotton-subsidy reparations proposed by four African countries at the WTO’s Cancún meeting this fall: $250,000,000	Harper's Index Source: World Trade Organization (Geneva)
May 2003	Number of words that the Times devoted to 1998's U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa per resulting death: 163	Harper's Index Source: Harper's research
Feb 2002	Rank of the Coca-Cola Company among Africa's largest private-sector employers: 1	Harper's Index Source: The Coca-Cola Company (Atlanta)
Jul 2001	Minimum number of people who have been trampled to death at soccer matches in Africa since April: 177	Harper's Index Source: Harper's research
Dec 2000	Ratio of the number of Africans killed by AIDS last year to the number killed by warfare: 19:1	Harper's Index Source: World Health Organization (Geneva)
Sep 2000	Chance that a 15-year-old African boy will die of AIDS: 1 in 2	Harper's Index Source: UNAIDS (Geneva)
Jul 2000	Chance that a U.N. peacekeeping mission to Africa has included American troops: 1 in 9	Harper's Index

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