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Recycling for EducationAn Environmentally Responsible Force in Nigeria

Climate change remains a global and existential problem. Humanity is slowly accepting that their actions on earth are a credible threat to the planet. To preserve the environment, organisations, like the African Cleanup Initiative in Lagos, Nigeria, are doing its quota to sensitize underserved communities, while helping to ensure their children stay in school.

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Coming to Terms with the Past Confronting the Dark Chapter

Between 1904 and 1908 the colonial forces of the German Reich murdered tens of thousands of Ovaherero and Nama people in what is now Namibia. After more than five years of negotiations, Germany recognised this as genocide. Henning Melber discusses the shortcomings of these negotiations, as well as the process of colonial powers coming to terms with the past.

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