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The 17th-century town Cacheu was a hub of West African and European cultures, languages and beliefs (and run by women) ...

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Built from vegetal materials, these majestic tombs housing Buganda kings bridge the realms of living and dead in Uganda ...

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is professor of history at George Washington University, where he specialises in Native American, Colonial American, and American racial history. His latest book is Thundersticks: Firearms and the ...