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Somali Pirates

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/12/business/piracy-economy-world-bank/http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/12/business/piracy-economy-world-bank/

Genocide in Rwanda

http://www.unitedhumanrights.org/genocide/genocide_in_rwanda.htm

Gay Rights in Uganda

http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1946648,00.html

2010 World Cup in South Africa 

http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1946648,00.html

Axum, Kush, and Benin

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/nubia1.asp

Ancient Egypt

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.htmlhttp://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html

Legacy of Apartheid

http://www.stylist.co.uk/life/when-the-world-was-black-and-whitehttp://www.stylist.co.uk/life/when-the-world-was-black-and-white

Lost Boys of Sudan

http://www.unicef.org/sowc96/closboys.htm

HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

http://www.afro.who.int/en/clusters-a-programmes/dpc/acquired-immune-deficiency-syndrome/overview.html

African Fashion

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/21/fashion/Diversity-in-fashion-in-johannesburg-south-africa.html?action=click&module=Search&region=searchResults&mabReward=relbias%3Ar&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%3Faction%3Dclick%26region%3DMasthead%26pgtype%3DHomepage%26module%3DSearchSubmit%26contentCollection%3DHomepage%26t%3Dqry504%23%2Fafrican+fashion&_r=0

Black Hawk Down

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ambush/

Lost Boys of Sudan

http://www.amazon.com/What-Dave-Eggers/dp/0307385906


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-16047050

HIV/AIDs 

http://www.avert.org/hiv-aids-south-africa.htm

Fashion and Imperialism

http://www.ecouterre.com/is-the-african-inspired-fashion-trend-a-form-of-cultural-appropriation/

Rwandan Genocide Perspectives

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/hrdi/00004/hrdi-00004.html

Conditions for Democracy

http://www.ipu.org/PDF/publications/DEMOCRACY_PR_E.pdf

Diseases in Mali

http://www.who.int/hac/crises/mli/sitreps/mali_implementation_report_april2014.pdf?ua=1

Gay Rights in Uganda

****Look at reference list at the bottom of the page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda_Anti-Homosexuality_Act,_2014

Education Systems

http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-structure-us.html

Madagascar Exiles

https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R40448.pdf

Foreign Aid in Africa

http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9121361/why-aid-fails/

Impact of Axum, Kush, and Benin

http://history-world.org/africa.htm

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/nubia1.asp

Media Coverage of Gay Rights in Russia 

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/05/russia-anti-gay-law-criticism-playing-into-putin-hands

Taliban

https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL30588.pdf

Recovery in Rwanda 

http://www.cfr.org/rwanda/rwanda-road-recovery/p21853

Nigerian Government and Boko Haram

http://www.irinnews.org/report/96915/analysis-hurdles-to-nigerian-government-boko-haram-dialogue

Government Corruption in Uganda

http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/10/21/uganda-free-pass-high-level-corruption

Teens and Technology in South Africa

http://www.un.org/africarenewal/magazine/may-2013/africa%E2%80%99s-mobile-youth-drive-change
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