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  • Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) movement, Nnamdi Kanu, 2017
    Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) movement, Nnamdi Kanu, 2017
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    The King of the Jews

    Biafran separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu has infused his movement with a Jewish sectarian identity in a country riven by tensions between Christians and Muslims. Is he putting Nigeria’s Igbo Jewish community at risk?

    byAdam Mayer
  • Monrovia, Liberia, August 2014. (John Moore/Getty Images)
    Monrovia, Liberia, August 2014. (John Moore/Getty Images)
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    Know What’s Scarier—and More of a Threat—Than Ebola? The Racism It’s Fueling.

    A hysteria-fueled media paints a continent’s people in grossly stereotypical strokes. Stop us if you’ve heard this one before.

    byLola Adesioye
  • A relief van drives through the Kono District of Sierra Leone during the rainiy season. (Laura Miller)
    A relief van drives through the Kono District of Sierra Leone during the rainiy season. (Laura Miller)
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    On the Front Lines of the Ebola Outbreak

    An American health worker living in Sierra Leone describes the devastation

    byThomas MacMillan
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