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Shaping the Crescent

By CLEA SIMON | December 22, 2008

Editor's Note: In a previous version of this article the language Kikongo was misidentified as Kikoyo in the fourth paragraph of this article. Kikongo, or Kongo, is the Bantu language spoken by the Bakongo and Bandundu people living in the tropical forests of the Democratic Republic whereas the Kikoyo is an area in Uganda.

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