Nongqawuse biography of barack
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Robben Island
Island in Table Bay, Western Cape, South Africa
For the prison, see Robben Island (prison).
Place in Western Cape, South Africa
Robben Island (Afrikaans: Robbeneiland) is an island in Table Bay, 6.9 kilometres (4.3 mi) west of the coast of Bloubergstrand, north of Cape Town, South Africa. It takes its name from the Dutch word for seals (robben), hence the Dutch/Afrikaans name Robbeneiland, which translates to Seal(s) Island.
Robben Island is roughly oval in shape, 3.3 kilometres (2 miles) long north–south, and 1.9 km (1+1⁄8 mi) wide, with an area of 5.08 km2 (1+31⁄32 sq mi).[2] It is flat and only a few metres above sea level, as a result of an ancient erosion event. It was fortified and used as a prison from the late-seventeenth century until 1996, after the end of apartheid.
Political activist and lawyer Nelson Mandela was imprisoned on the island for 18 of the 27 years of his imprisonment befo
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Bibliography
Heffernan, Anne. "Bibliography". Limpopo's Legacy: Student Politics & Democracy in South Africa, Boydell and Brewer: Boydell and Brewer, 2019, pp. 231-242. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781787444287-013
Heffernan, A. (2019). Bibliography. In Limpopo's Legacy: Student Politics & Democracy in South Africa (pp. 231-242). Boydell and Brewer: Boydell and Brewer. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781787444287-013
Heffernan, A. 2019. Bibliography. Limpopo's Legacy: Student Politics & Democracy in South Africa. Boydell and Brewer: Boydell and Brewer, pp. 231-242. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781787444287-013
Heffernan, Anne. "Bibliography" In Limpopo's Legacy: Student Politics & Democracy in South Africa, 231-242. Boydell and Brewer: Boydell and Brewer, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781787444287-013
Heffernan A. Bibliography. In: Limpopo's Legacy: Student Politics & Democracy in South Africa. Boydell and Brewer: Boydell and Brewer; 2019. p.231-242. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781787
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Lifting the Emotional Embargo With Cuba
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The June heat was so intense, the air so still, that the open balcony doors offered little relief. Anthropologist Ruth Behar felt her clothes sticking as she looked over the 30 or 40 people who filled every seat on the second floor of the Pharmaceutical Museum in Matanzas, Cuba. Some were adults, literature fans from this provincial capital east of Havana. Others were middle-grade students, inching toward adolescence yet well-behaved, wearing beige and brown school uniforms that represented their country’s egalitarian ideal.
From the balcony of the museum building—a 19th-century French-Cuban pharmacy filled with herbs, ceramic and glass vessels, and old prescription books—Behar could see Parque de la Libertad, with its statue of the revolutionary poet José Martí towering above a liberty figure with her shackles broken. Inside, another celebration of poetry was taking place. Behar’s friend Rolando Estévez Jordán, an internationally exhibit