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Nicholas Said’s Encounters with American Racism
By Farooq A. KperogiThis column continues from last week. Isaac Jacob Rochussen, the patrician from the Netherlands who brought Nicholas Said to New York in January 1860, exposed him to his first ...
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Nicholas Said’s encounter with American racism
THIS column continues from last week. Isaac Jacob Rochussen, the patrician from the Netherlands who brought Nicholas Said to New York in January 1860, exposed him to his first baptism of American ...
The True Story Behind Netflix’s ‘Surviving Black Hawk Down’ And The Battle Of Mogadishu
Following his award-winning film "Black Hawk Down," Ridley Scott’s new Netflix docuseries revisits the Battle of Mogadishu with firsthand accounts from those who lived it. Here’s what happened.
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Borno man who fought in America’s Civil War in the 1860s
Said was born Mohammed Ali ben Said around 1836 in Kuka (now called Kukawa) to a Kanuri father and a Mandara-Margi mother. He ...