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  • Her recent photographic portraits of masqueraders from West Africa are featured in a an exhibition at George Eastman House this summer, titled West African Masquerade: Photographs by Phyllis Galembo, on view through Sept. 28.

    West African Ritual Costumes Christopher 2008

  • I was amazed to hear the West Indian black workers call the West African black workers "monkeys".

    The wider problem of identity politics 2008

  • Her recent photographic portraits of masqueraders from West Africa are featured in a an exhibition at George Eastman House this summer, titled West African Masquerade: Photographs by Phyllis Galembo, on view through Sept. 28.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Christopher 2008

  • If white control advances and plantations are not made and trade with the interior is not expanded, the condition of the West African will be a very wretched one, far worse than it was before the export slave-trade was suppressed.

    Travels in West Africa 2003

  • This has been called the West African peasant revolution, and it introduced significant changes in the region's political economy.

    G. Africa, 1795-1917 2001

  • If white control advances and plantations are not made and trade with the interior is not expanded, the condition of the West African will be a very wretched one, far worse than it was before the export slave-trade was suppressed.

    Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881

  • Amnesty international calls the West African country abolitionist in practice concerning capital punishment and notes that the last known execution took place in 1981.

    News24 2009

  • Many white observers commented that slaves danced with bent knees and elbows, which according to the historian Peter Wood, was probably an expression of the West African belief that “straightened knees, hips, and elbows”—which characterized European styles of dance—epitomized death and rigidity, “while flexed joints embodied energy and life.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • Over the years, West African spiritual leaders of the Yoruba faith had come to her for spiritual guidance.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • That's worse than some of the West African countries that have declared it an epidemic.

    DeMorning DeBonis: Feb. 25, 2011 2011

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