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People walk past the building that houses the offices of Cambridge Analytica in central London, March 20, 2018. Share WASHINGTON — Long before its controversial roles in the 2016 Brexit vote and U.S. presidential election, Cambridge Analytica influenced elections in Africa. The data mining company, under fire for its alleged use of 50 million Facebook accounts to shape campaign messages for then-candidate Donald Trump, also played a role in elections in Kenya and Nigeria, according to new reports. The company's first involvement in Africa dates to the general election in South Africa in 1994. That election marked the end of...

South African Zulu King Invokes Fight Against AIDS, Drought, in Plea to ANC Government to Retain Close Israel Ties Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithinii during the unveiling of a memorial to the Battle of Isandlwana, in which a Zulu force clashed with invading British soldiers in 1879. Photo: JN / JDP / Reuters. The king of South Africa’s Zulu nation has urged the country’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) to retain close ties with Israel, following last month’s vote by the ANC at its national conference to downgrade the South African Embassy in Tel Aviv to a “liaison office.” King Goodwill...

At a place called Isandlwana, a British force, consisting of 1,000 soldiers of the 24th Foot, (2nd Warwickshire Regiment), and 300 native troops was attacked by 20,0000 Zulu warriors. The Zulu force, armed mostly with spears and cowhide shields, overran the British positions and killed all but a handful of the defenders. It was the worst defeat in the history of the British Army by a native army. Later that afternoon, 5,000 Zulu warriors attacked a small British force at a river crossing called Rorke’s Drift. Here, 130 soldiers of Co. B, 2nd Bat. 24th Foot, repelled numerous attacks by...

Its the 170th anniversary of a pioneer story hardly anyone ever hears anymore. One of those stories about courageous men with nothing more than a bag of seeds, a hoe, hammer and musket, a pregnant wife and a horse come to stay. They fought off wild animals, hostile natives, outlaw bandits and other hardships to make the once desolate landscape a land of flowing milk and honey. The story you are about to read is one that hardly any American ever hears. Primarily because this story is not set in the wild untamed west of North America but in the...

In a resurgence of Zulu spirit and national pride thousands of tribesmen will gather at the site of Britain's worst imperial military defeat today to mark its 125th anniversary. Huge numbers of those at Isandlwana will be descendants of the Zulu warriors who in January 1879, armed only with assegais, knobkerries and cattle-hide shields, outwitted and destroyed a well-armed British expeditionary force. On the grassy flanks of Isandlwana Mountain, the final resting place to the battle's 3,000 Zulu and 1,400 British dead, Zulu prayers will be intoned and dances performed. The current Zulu king, Goodwill Zwelethini, heads a long list...

"IF COLORADO had a high school team named the Niwot N-ggers, with a big-lipped spear-chucker as a mascot, we all know that African-American groups would demand that the school change the name," writes Denver Post columnist Reggie Rivers. It is therefore astonishing, concludes Rivers, that some people still defend team names such as "Braves," "Warriors" " and "Renegades" – names that are just as insulting to American Indians as Niwot N-ggers would be to blacks. With these words, Rivers accidentally stumbled upon the unspoken question looming behind the great team mascot debate: Why don’t we have any sports teams named...