Monday May 21st 2012
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Africa
South Africa under apartheid
Music kept me alive
Jan 5th 2012, 9:59 by The Economist online
JÜRGEN SCHADEBERG arrived in South Africa as a teenager in 1950. Shocked by the effects of apartheid, he began to photograph the country's diverse but divided culture
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On this blog our correspondents delve into the politics, economics and culture of the continent of Africa, from Cairo to the Cape. The blog takes its name from the baobab, a massive tree that grows throughout much of Africa. It stores water, provides food and is often called the tree of life.
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The Ethiopians are grande beasts, as are the Somalians in drug-crazed British lands around the World. They deal drugs , very dangerous ones to children and traffic death causing very non-Great British diseases through prostitution dens wanted by the most deadly men and women in all of their properties. If you were concerned by drug abuse wouldn't you damn them as Isaiah has cleanly explained in The Holy Bible? The wise British must understand this God because he hates lusts that ruin prosperity.
Thank you, a wonderful set of photographs from a wonderful man.
And thanks God for that! What an extraordinary set of fotographies!