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Cape Verde: Africa Day

Sunday, May 25th, 2008 @ 20:17 UTC

by Paula Góes

Countries:: Cape Verde
Topics:: Arts & Culture, History
Languages:: Portuguese

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Português:	Cabo Verde: Dia da África...
Malagasy:	Cap Vert : Andron'i Afrika...

To celebrate the Africa Day today, Baluka Brazao [pt] publishes and provides info on a picture by Robert Colescott, Marching to a Different Drummer in which according to the Cape Verdean “Colescott addresses the white perception of the black and the black perception of the white, and shows how racism and imposed inferiority define the black identity.”

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