Archive for August, 2008
Saturday, August 30th, 2008
The war in Iraq and the political turmoil in the Middle East have resulted to the birth of various medical conditions among the devastated population of the war-infested country. Among the most prominent yet mysterious diseases that struck the Iraqi population is the Blastocystis infection. Its peculiarity stems from the ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
Looking back in November 11, 2004, the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died of stroke that was caused by a bleeding disorder which resulted from African unknown illness that resulted to a fatal infection.
Apparently, the leader suffered from an infection of an unknown cause for over a month before he had ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
There are around 50 countries in the African continent covering almost the entire English alphabet from Algeria to Zimbabwe. Africa has two geo-political zones – resort-filled North Africa that includes exotic Mediterranean costal destinations and Sub-Saharan Africa that make up the Savanna rich wilds and gaming preserves. While it may ...
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
There is no denying that the modern musical percussions like drums in jazz, disco and rock bands can trace their roots back to Africa. Talking about the history of modern musical instruments inevitably leads us to a chapter or two about the history of African tribal dance drums.
African dance culture ...
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Girls could be swooning at Michael Jackson’s or DMC’s wild dance steps or Elvis Presley’s gyrations two decades back. But the craze isn’t that new. African tribal priests in religious ceremonies or neophytes in some tribal initiation rite have been gyrating, stomping and with acrobatic élan since God knows when. ...
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