For hundreds of years, diamonds have been valued as the most prescious of gems. Diamonds have an extremmely versatile utility -at one end of the spectrum, they have sentimental meaning; at the other, they are indispensable components in a multitude of technological instruments and products.
Diamonds must be acknowledged when we examine Africa's colonial past, latter 20th Century bloodshed, economic oppression, and current efforts to take control of its natural resource base.
...a zoom in to Mongu, on the Angola/Zambia border
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