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Diversity of language in Africa
There is more diversity in Africa than on all the other continents combined. That’s because modem humans originated in Africa and have
lived there the longest. They’ve had ime to evolve enormous genetic
diversity—which extends to skin color. Researchers who study it sometimes use
Africa’s linguistic diversity—it has more than 2,000 languages —as a guide. “There
is no homogeneous African race,’’ says geneticist Sarah Tishkoff of the
University of Pennsylvania. “It doesn’t exist.’’ The prehistoric humans who
left Africa some 60,000 years ago—giving rise over time to the other peoples of
the world—reflected only a fraction of Africa’s diversity.
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| Language diversity of continental Africa. Each dot represent a distinct language |
(National
Geographic, April 2019)
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Sept 12-14, 1928: Preliminary Conference in Geneva to make arrangements for the Universal Religious Peace Conference to be held in 1930
(Star of the West, vol, 19, no. 9, December 1928)