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Title	Type	Date	Words
The Princess who stole the heart of the West.	Interview	Nov 1, 2011	2289
Africa had its own writing systems!		Aug 1, 2011	3704
Neglected indigenous food crops could be a saviour: underutilised food crops (also called neglected or indigenous crops) can save the world, especially sub-Saharan Africa, from hunger. So why have African scientists rarely looked to their neglected indigenous crops to provide solutions to their food needs and for export? Curtis Abraham went to find out.		Mar 1, 2011	1549
Dr Henson, I presume: normally when two people make a discovery, common sense dictates that they should share the credit. But not when one is black and the other white. This is what happened to Matthew Henson, an African-American explorer, who escorted the American Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary (left) to the Geographic North Pole in 1909. Peary became a hero, Henson was buried in a common grave, reports Curtis Abraham.	Report	Apr 1, 2009	2715
Uganda's vanilla boom: Uganda is currently experiencing a vanilla boom. And growers are laughing all the way to the bank. Curtis Abraham reports from Kampala.		Apr 1, 2004	696
Nnyanzi the master.		Jan 1, 2004	1579
Oil: latest stop Uganda but who really benefits? Uganda is Africa's latest kid on the oil block. In fact, oil occurrence in the Lake Albert basin in western Uganda has been documented for decades. Now comes news that the Semiliki Basin, south of Lake Albert, could yield "several billions of barrels" of "black gold".		Aug 1, 2003	1365
The Mountain People revisited: Curtis Abraham went to Ik-land in Uganda and saw how wrong Colin Turnbull, the British-born American anthropologist, was in his 1972 book on the Ik, the mountain people. (Feature: Uganda).		Feb 1, 2002	2148