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Cricket and Race in 20th-Century Southern Africa
"The game of cricket, with its quintessential flannels, picket fences, and “fair play,” was trespassed in South Africa by the ideology of white racial supremacy. There were the occasional piercings of the white boundary, but this was quickly shut down..." – By Ashwin Desai
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Music of Igbo
"The Igbo, one of the largest ethnic groups in Nigeria and West Africa possesses one of the richest cultures in the region. Their ethnic name is derived from their language which is part of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger–Congo language family..." – By Austin C. Okigbo
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