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Or the continent can reach back to Giuseppe Verdi, born two hundred years ago, whose penultimate, and probably greatest, operatic achievement starts on the coast of Cyprus with a storm of fantastic violence and the opening words of its hero, Otello: Esultate, rejoice!

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The infant mortality rate is the highest on this continent, and is about three times higher than the US national average.

It's considered high seas, because the continent has been put off limits to territorial claims.

TKM: So within the African continent, there's a great deal of talk about the synergic nature of sex and how it comes together as a social good.

SK: No, it's not, and these women have taught us that despite the dark history that covers the body of women from our beautiful continent, these women are actively and beautifully constructing what sex and pleasure means to them.

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