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The German government has returned 25 of possibly hundreds of Herero and Nama skulls taken from Namibia for examination by racial anthropologists in an attempt to...
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A research team, led by South Africa's University of the Witwatersrand, has found pieces of an ancient continent, dubbed “Mauritia”, beneath the African island of Mauritius....
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Is Naomi Osaka at the centre of another nationality claim?

African judges wearing wigs a symbol of British colonialism? Julius Malema thinks so

Germany returns human remains from Namibian genocide

The lost continent of “Mauritia” is submerged under the Island of Mauritius

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