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John Garang
John Garang was a government army officer sent to quell a mutiny of 500 southern troops who were resisting orders to be shipped north. It took him 22 years to come back. Garang fought for more than 20 years Thus began the story of the Sudan People's ...
Manny Pacquiao
On the day after Oscar De La Hoya retired, the man best poised to succeed him as the world's most popular active boxer made it clear he knows his drawing power comes not from his smile or magnetic personality but from his work in the ring."I try to f...
Paul Kagame
In 1994, Rwanda suffered one of the world's worst genocides where around 800,000 people, mainly minority Tutsis, were massacred by extremist Hutus.“It is a day we remember systematic slaughter of over a million of our innocent fellow Rwandans, an o...
Lagos
Africa's second most populous city has grown explosively, from 300,000 in 1950 to an expected 18 million by 2010, when it will be ranked as one of the world's ten largest cities. This happened so quickly that the city had no effective institutions, e...
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (formerly known as Ceylon) is a tropical island lying close to the southern tip of India and near the Equator. From the coast, the land rises to a central plateau, where tea plantations are found. Sinhalese form the country's major ethnic g...
Benicio del Toro
Benicio Del Toro emerged in the mid-'90s as one of the most watchable and charismatic character actors to come along in years. A favorite of film buffs, Del Toro gained mainstream public attention as the conflicted but basically honest Mexican cop in...
I really like the quote from Nelson Mandela. It gives me courage to continue and rise past adversity. Thank you!
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