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@beyondB_DAG Brilliant! Applause, applause, and applause. Picard would have hired her immediately.

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@spaceMonster @1JLVSTW Look after him please, Q.

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@1JLVSTW Brilliant. Thanks so much. I shall frame this to put in my office. Well done.

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@OnePunchFade @oumarou_rahim Might we explore this more? I prefer to focus on the Sahel. The Hutsi Tutsi thing I don't want to do again. Worked there before, would prefer that Kigame retire. I stood on the genocide museum built on the mass grave in Rwanda. Meanwhile, Amhara burns.

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Ever been to Haiti? Be honest. There have many natural disasters there for centuries. There have also been corrupt gouvernances (Papa and baby Doc Duvalier), gang violence (tonton Macoute), and classism (modern slavery if you will. Remind me--where did Baby Doc retire? J'ai oublié.

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My word. I am considering history, and "heaat" is not a word. Been to Haiti many times as an agricultural scientist. At some point, a country has to set its own destiny despite harsh realities. Haiti was independent in 1804 (remarkable!) How has governance been since then? Asking for Papa and Baby Doc (et Tonton Macoute, bien sur

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@MekRedneck @historical_Afr Not at all. He had that much gold. He was likely richest person ever, although maybe Elon could give him a run? For gold per se, Peter Munk might be able to give Mansa Musa a run for his (ahem) money, but corrected for inflation and all of that bit, I doubt it. Cheers mate.

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@MarcusAlanHans1 @historical_Afr You rather lost me, but take care. You appear to be a loon and a lost gamer to me, but whatever. Take care now.

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@kybmarlo @MarcusAlanHans1 @historical_Afr Thank you fari. I am not quite sure what you meant. I do know what melanin means--the pigment. Not quite sure what you mean regarding freeing one's mind of worldly terms, or skin looking like yours, but I wish you well.

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@JaysSambo7885 @historical_Afr Yes, absolutely (by Africans enslaving Africans). But first and foremost through gold. Songhai were likely in 2nd place? Thanks

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@Unspoken777777 @historical_Afr Thanks. Can you please edit and resend in English such that I might understand your comment? If you can't write English (which seems rather apparent), consider using Grok to translate for you. Cheers

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@miko_aj14207 @historical_Afr In some ways, you oddly made my point. I don't believe in reparations at all. He likely was, as you say, one of (if not the greatest) slave owners of his era. I confess that I don't at all understand the phrase "empire of buffalo shieeet houses." It is rather unintelligible.

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Given your poor grammar, I'm not sure whether you are poorly educated, non-English speaker, or just drunk. I have read thousands of books, and published a few, I assure you. Can you please be more specific about "the last African empire"? It is a vast continent. There was no last empire.

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@Doctor_Hue @AfricanHub_ Good to see you again Vladimir. Prigozhin and Africa Corps send their regards. So do 2 million displaced Burkinabés, including more than 10 thousand killed. The dead Peul children and women in particular say hello. Have you no shame?

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@jsmith68abq @ManaByte And one of the finest series in all of television, in my humble view.

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@EmoryJohnMich8 @RepJoshG "Young American-Israeli to The Guardian." Quite the credible, corroborated, and reliable source from the very neutral publication The Guardian. Hamas, Hezbollah, and IRGC are pathetic, apartheid and, most of all evil. 850,000 Jews driven out of Arab states after independence.

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@FranceskAlbs They aren't Israeli citizens, now are they? Why should they have voting rights in a country with no citizenship? They can vote in West Bank (Judea/Samaria) or Gaza, now can't they? Um, wait a minute...can they vote there? Special Rapporteur mon derrière.

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@Slogs1231 I watched this series when it was originally aired and I was in graduate school (I am a scientist), and then over and over again in subsequent years. I can recite most lines of most episodes; I watch STNG when cooking. If I had to pick my favourite epsode, this would be it.

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@BlkHistStudies Holy Moly.

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@Sean_Heuston_16 I do believe that 70 is the new 27, despite what my joints are telling me.