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Map of Events in the News Database

This is map of news items in the African Poets and Poetry in the News database that contain spatial data, such as the location an event occurred. Scroll or use the + and - buttons to zoom in and out, and click a pin on the map to view the news item in the database. Or, you can use a faceted browse to explore events in the news.

Item: South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Item: Trial of Breyten Breytenbach

Item: Marriage to Mary Garman

Item: US Athletes boycott Olympics, with support from SANROC (Dennis Brutus)

Item: Degree Doctor of Letters by Diploma conferred to Léopold Sédar Senghor

Item: Performance of "The Lion and the Jewel" by Wole Soyinka on the BBC Third Programme

Item: Death of Foreign Minister of Malagasy Republic

Item: Nigerian Civil War

Item: Population Registration Act

Item: Arrest of Ken Saro-Wiwa

Item: First International Congress of Negro Writers and Artists

Item: International PEN Conference