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Nearly every human empire that has arisen in the world, material and spiritual, has found some of its greatest crises on this continent of Africa, from Greece to Great Britain.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Du Bois notes that many significant historical events and crises have occurred in Africa, impacting global history.
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