The history of the coastal communities of east Africa shows how ethnic groups and their languages were shaped.
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The first ancient DNA sequences from peoples of the medieval Swahili civilization push aside colonialist stories and reveal genetic connections from the past.
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South Africa has made remarkable progress in redressing its historically and mainly race based deprivations but a lot still needs to be done.
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W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow, Harvard University | DPhil Student, University of Oxford, Harvard University
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Professor of Genetics and of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
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