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A history of person, country in 'There Was a Country'
-------------------- There Was a Country A Personal History of Biafra Chinua Achebe Penguin Press: 352 pp., $27.95 -------------------- Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian author of the groundbreaking 1958 novel "Things Fall Apart," is widely considered...Tags: Africa, National Government, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Lagos (Nigeria), Arts and Culture
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Singers David Correy, Nelson Emokpae are in harmony on reality TV
At first glance, David Correy and Nelson Emokpae could not be more different. One is a humble, clean-cut 32-year-old African native with a silky voice. The other is 26, covered in tattoos and piercings and so passionate about his music he breaks down...
Tags: Maroon 5 (music group), Bruno Mars, Baltimore County, The Voice (tv program), Music
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Citizens United argument should cut both ways
The bitterly sarcastic drama planned next week in Allentown is understandable. The American political process is being polluted by expensive deluges of propaganda, designed to boost politicians who cater to the insatiable greed of billionaires. That's...
Tags: Elections, Political Corruption, Federal Election Commission, U.S. Supreme Court, George W. Bush
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Pakistan Protest Against Anti-Muslim Film Turns Deadly
CNNThe United States braced Saturday for more protests over an independently produced anti-Islam film that has ignited anger in the Muslim world, temporarily closing some of its diplomatic missions and warning American citizens in some countries to be...Tags: Barack Obama, Gaza Crisis (2008), Palestine, Charity, Armed Conflicts
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'The Voice' recap, Baltimore's Nelly's Echo kills it, joins Christina Aguilera's team
The biggest thing to hit NBC's "The Voice" tonight was Baltimore's Nelly's Echo, a Nigerian refugee who wowed the judges with his rendition of Bill Wither's "Ain't No Sunshine," and who found a place on Christina Aguilera's team. Nelly’s Echo --...
Tags: Gloria Estefan, Bob Marley, Carson Daly, Blake Shelton, The Voice (tv program)
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Man Arrested for Trying to Smuggle Cocaine-stuffed Roasted Chickens
KTLA NewsLAGOS, Nigeria (KTLA) -- As if bringing roasted chicken on a plane wasn't odd enough. Vincent Chegini Chinweuwa was arrested over the weekend at an airport in Lagos after officials discovered he had traveled from Sao Paulo, Brazil with over $150,000...Tags: Career and Workplace, Brazil, Labor Legislation, Lagos (Nigeria)
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New report shows CNN International as top news channel in Africa
The Baltimore SunI know some of my more parochial colleagues can't get past the troubles CNN continues to have in its prime-time American operation. And I am right up there in being dismayed by some of the moves management has made with Eliot Spitzer, Kathleen Parker,...Tags: Television, CNN International (tv network), Europe, Entertainment, Erin Burnett
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Nigeria Demands Boston Museum Return Art Looted In 1897 Massacre
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston recently received a gift of a collection of African artifacts, bronze and ivory sculptures, from New York banker Robert Owen Lehman. As it turns out, they had been looted during a massacre in Benin by British troops in...
Tags: Arts, Massacres, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Robert V Owen, Arts and Culture
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London Olympics a cry-fest for the ages
You know how they say there's no crying in baseball? Apparently they haven't gotten that message at the London Olympics. Have you ever seen so much blubbering in your life? These athletes cry tears of joy when they win. They cry tears of sorrow when...
Tags: London (England), LeBron James, Awards and Prizes, NBC (tv network), Kobe Bryant
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World's Worst Traffic Jam?
KickingTiresIf you thought your commute to the office today was painful, it was nothing compared to one man's 12-hour trip on the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway near Lagos, Nigeria. The daylong, 40-mile ride was peppered with hours of standstill traffic, crowbar-wielding...Tags: Highway Transportation, Lagos (Nigeria)
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At least 95 killed in Nigerian tanker explosion
World NowAt least 95 killed in Nigerian tanker explosion: At least 95 people were burned to death in Nigeria's oil-rich Rivers State when a petrol tanker that overturned and spilled fuel on a highway exploded.... -
Nigerian scammers target local investigator
WSBT-TV ReporterImagine being part of an international romance scam that’s bilking hundreds of people out of money. The worst part? You have no idea your face is being used to con people you’ve never met. That’s what happened to retired Elkhart police...Tags: U.S. Military, Punishment, Iraq, Prosecution, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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