"We don't call Gorée an island," the unofficial tour guide said many times. "We call Gorée a continent - because people from all over West Africa passed through here, into slavery."
- Images of Gorée Island, Senegal, taken on 12 July 2007 - ©M.Wood
Africa and the Tyranny of the Cult of Mediocrity - Helen Grange
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It is a piercing indictment of African liberation sensibility when, like
some biblical Jews in the long desert to Canaan who demanded that Moses
returns ...
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