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Akan purification & new-yam rite
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Anlo-Ewe exodus from Notsie
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Pan-Africanism was a promise. Africanism is the practice.The map was drawn for us. The road is ours to build.We are not the world's footnote — we are its oldest chapter.Pan-Africanism was a promise. Africanism is the practice.The map was drawn for us. The road is ours to build.We are not the world's footnote — we are its oldest chapter.
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