9 Statues Uprooted From Africa Head Home
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Yesterday all nine wooden statues that were displayed in the Park Avenue apartment of the producer Lewis M. Allen and the screenwriter Jay Presson Allen were formally handed over to the Kenyan government.
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The world looked on helplessly four years ago as Islamic zealots destroyed two enormous standing Buddha statues overlooking Afghanistan's Bamian Valley,  but recent explorations at the ancient site have led researchers to conclude that all may not have been lost. A third, much larger statue -- a 1,000-foot-long sleeping Buddha -- may still be buried nearby.
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SOWETO, South Africa  - South Africa is scouring the globe to recover lost works by black artists that depict the turbulent apartheid era in a drive to educate young people about the struggle against white rule.
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Once the continent's pariah because of racial oppression, South Africa has become the favored destination for educated, ambitious refugees from other parts of Africa with political and economic problems.
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The findings are considered a significant step toward understanding who were some of the first ancestors to migrate out of Africa some 1.8 million years ago.
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A famous 3,000-year-old bust of Egyptian Queen Nefertiti is moving to a new home as part of a project to restore Berlin's museums, tourism officials said Tuesday.
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ROME Huge numbers of migrants from Africa have showed up in rickety boats on the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa in the last few days, and the government is responding quickly and contentiously, sending most of them back to Libya, almost immediately, by
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The gilded treasures of King Tutankhamun are on their way back to the United States in what could prove a gold rush for Egypt and big business.
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For the past couple of years, these mysterious circles of carved stone figures, which villagers in southern Nigeria still worship on occasion, have been causing a frenzy of excitement here.
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As the year winds down and well-heeled Gautengers, Mpumalangans and Vrystaters trek south to that glorious part of our country called Plett for their perennial dipping-of-toes-into-ocean ritual, other Africans also have reasons to celebrate and enjoy life
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Former South African president Nelson Mandela watched Wednesday as a statue of him was unveiled outside the Houses of Parliament before dignitaries including Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
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An ancient skull from South Africa  and carved tools and ornaments from Russia paint a rare picture  of the time when modern humans migrated out of Africa to  colonize Europe, researchers reported on Thursday.
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Nelson Mandela paid tribute to the antiapartheid struggle yesterday as Britain unveiled a towering statue in his honor outside the Houses of Parliament, saying it symbolized the sacrifices made by all who fight oppression.
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Italy finally looks set to heal a feud with Ethiopia by returning one of its most cherished relics, the obelisk of Axum, taken by fascist invaders almost 70 years ago.
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A statue of the notorious former Belgian colonial king Leopold II is re-erected in the DR Congo capital, Kinshasa.
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On October 6, 360 Africans were put on Hercules transports belonging to the Italian army and were flown from Lampedusa, an island off the coast of Sicily, to a holding camp in Libya.
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The heady show of African art at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art is a joy to the eye. But more important, it introduces us to an Africa and an Islam we don't know.