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Back in the 1980s from the original founders of the descendents association, and i guess it stopped for a while, so i decided to start it up again. And i was reading the book, the slaveship clotilda and the makers of africa town. That is how i came up with the title. I was looking for a title, but you know, a lot of things were not ringing a bell. When i was reading her book, i was like oh wow, our ancestors just jumped at me. You greeted everyone and there was a point where you had descendents speak. How did you come up with your program . Well, growing up here in africa town and attending the missionary baptist church, there was a bust of cudgel lewis in front of our church all of my life, and back in 2002 that bust was destroyed by some kids acting up, and they decided to vandalize, and later, they put up a Historical Marker, and this Historical Marker had the founders of Union Baptist church, and there were several names on there, and growing up, i always heard about cudgel lewis,
What is the most glaring or salient way in which the transatlantic relationship is likely to change with the incoming biden administration. Well biden also people have picked for his cabinet and his kind of close coworkers are very committed to transit lantus as spies having that said we have to keep in mind that it was president obama who came out with this doctrine leading from behind and this is something President Biden will continue to do he will ask your own people ask. Germany to pay their fair share in the Defense Community to pay more money for their own military equipment so its gonna be a tricky part for President Biden because for sure he doesnt want to send back troops overseas and hurt military families that wouldnt be good policies either so its going to be tricky but i think it is fair to say that hes very committed to stable and consistent transatlantic relationships. Washington bureau chief in his poll reporting to us there from the u. S. Capital thank you and as bang
A homegrown german vaccine developer so why wasnt germany the 1st approved vaccine i put that very question a short time ago to peter cram star hes heading a vaccination approval study here in germany for drugmaker cure back. Yes we are very happy. However. In the. It must not the 1st one it is the 1st one proved the below tech vaccine but we should not forget to discuss vaccines against. Proved by the chinese and by russian government and regulatory bodies they improved our vaccines 1st already in summer and well you hope that means continue in the who will have to 1st approval in the European Union. So would you say 3 vaccines already been approved and many more awaiting approval that this is the beginning of the end of the coronavirus pandemic. Well this is how i see it it will be certainly a change in the us after having discussed axing orders and European Union and hopefully soon or so in other countries and read about since i rolled out big vaccination campaigns with the start of
Lines but why do so many Young Africans still risk their lives for it. I. Welcome to the program the journalism industry has been hit tod cuticle with 19 pandemic across the continent loss of revenue from advertising has led some media houses to lay off journalists some publications ive even had to shut down but still struggling to survive and i even make in more dishes moves to south africa your Digital News Media outlet is now branching into print publication against all odds. Investigative critical journalism thats the trademark of the Daily Maverick it started in 2009 as a digital only publication and has been at the forefront in exposing corruption and government failures in south africa in september they decided to swim against the current and publish to print publication for the 1st time most media houses around the world have struggled with with this process of moving from a print publication into the Digital World and then having to digitally transform their operations weve be