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All the evidence, both ancient and modern, points to a tiny non-African ancestry population between 50 and 60,000 years ago, a few thousand individuals at most
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The Mind of South Africa: The Story of the Rise and Fall of ApartheidTheir words
Definitely recommended, written at the very end of the apartheid era which gives it yet another angle of interest.
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The Bomb: South Africa's Nuclear Weapons ProgrammeTheir words
I had been looking for a book on this topic for a long time, and finally I found the right one in a South African bookshop.
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The Middle East, North Africa and Anatolia are witnessing a rapid decline in coupling and fertility. This should rock your priors.
12 February 2025
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American aid obligations in Sub-Saharan Africa, for instance, have never exceeded $15 per person
21 January 2025
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Having fallen into the East Asia - Africa Trap before, I can tell you precisely why so many people make this mistake.
From one piece No, South Korea Was Not Poorer Than Kenya in 1960 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The relative absence of pre-colonial states meant that the newly independent African states were largely European inventions; modern Kenya, for instance, inherits the boundaries of British East Africa, which was created by pulling together the Kikuyu, Luo, Luhya, Kalenjin, and Kamba ethnic groups.
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At independence, South Korea and Taiwan had far higher rates of primary education than most of Sub-Saharan Africa.
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African states formed where it was rational to do so, in places like the Ethiopian highlands where population density was high and the disease burden was relatively low.
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Japanese colonial rule built a far deeper state in Korea than European rule ever built in sub-Saharan Africa.Their words
The Japanese empire reached far deeper into its colonies than any European empire ever did in Sub-Saharan Africa.
31 December 2023
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Dark CountryTheir words
Mind candy horror/mystery, stalking and being stalked by the somewhat-supernatural serial killer, with extensive local color for contemporary South Africa. There are rough patches, but it's a perfectly enjoyable specimen of this type of novel. It's obviously the set-up for a series, and I'm not sure I need to follow these characters, but I would be happy to read more by Snyman.
30 May 2023
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Born in BlacknessTheir words
If you’re interested in learning more about the history of Africa, its central role in the world, and the ways in which both have been misunderstood in the West, I highly recommend Born in Blackness.
18 November 2017
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The world would have to move from an inequality level that is higher than that of South Africa to complete equality that has never existed in any recorded society.
13 November 2017
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