Israel–South Africa relations - Wikipedia

No one ever expects an umbrella to be adorned with jawbones, do they? (Or maybe, just maybe, accuracy wasn't the main goal for this book.)

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Illustration from the 1874 European book "Dahomey as it is; Being A Narrative of Eight Months' Residence in that Country with a full account of the notorious annual customs, and the social and religious institutions of the Ffons"

Yale University Library, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.36729854

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Ethiopia is the only country that was never conquered by white people.

It was because every time a white person "found" them, they were treated well but never allowed to leave.

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Southern Rhodesia in WW2 (Presentation Lecture by Dr. Anotida Chikumbu at Florida State University)

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Ethiopia marks battle of Adwa anniversary amid rising tensions with Eritrea http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TRFjqk #Ethiopia #AdwaBattle #NationalPride #AfricanHistory #Colonization