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November 15, 2021
Berlin Conference
Africa and its scattered children endured the infamous Berlin Conference on this day in 1884. At this conference, European nations and the United States sat at a table and carved out the African continent among themselves. The consequences are still with us today.
Also on this day
Sir William Arthur Lewis
Sir William Arthur Lewis was a Professor of Economics at Princeton University. On this day in 1979, he won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
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