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Abdu Rafiu contributes the RAM column to USAfricaonline.com Special to USAfrica magazine (Houston) and USAfricaonline.com, the first Africa-owned, US-based newspaper published on the Internet. The phrase, being smart, connotes something unsavoury;…
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