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Second, vast geographic differences across ethnic homelands in many African countries, together with these countries’ sprawling size and inadequate infrastructure left by the colonial powers, has meant that national governments have struggled to govern effectively beyond the metropoles.

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It's become a sprawling urban area dependent on dirty fuel, dirty energy, particularly coal.

It's possible the fire destroyed part of the sprawling collection, but we know from ancient writings that scholars continued to visit the library for centuries after the siege.

Then in my late 20s, I shifted to the sprawling metropolis of Mumbai, and my framework, like the newly industrialized aspirational humanity, began to alter.

You have teenagers sprawling on the pavers, seniors monopolizing the benches, and real life starts to look like an opera set.

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