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June 27, 2016

English Breakfast, anyone?

Published on June 27, 2016June 27, 2016 in Glocal/Politics by Rachael Clugston

Please EU, just have a cup of tea and be patient, scrambled eggs are off the menu.

Finding Africa outside Brazil

Published on June 27, 2016April 30, 2018 in Society by Ana Beatriz Ribeiro

I'd grown up in Brazil in the 1990s knowing nothing about Africa except for the tragic images shown on TV, or cultural stereotypes. It took moving away from Brazil for me to get to know a different Africa, although Brazilian politicians like to capitalize on bonds between Brazil and the continent, and there being a large Afro-descendant population in Brazil. https://leipglo.com — African orphan picture, public domain.

They’d show us Africa as a hopeless place, and as a distant place.

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