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  2. Lagos - Wikipedia

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    Lagos ( / ˈleɪɡɒs / LAY-goss; [10] [11] also US: / ˈlɑːɡoʊs / LAH-gohss; [11] [12] Yoruba: Èkó) or Lagos City is the most populous city in Nigeria (Self-proclaimed [13] ), with an estimated population of 21 million [14] [15] [16] in 2015. Lagos is the most populous urban area in Africa. [17] Lagos was the national capital of Nigeria ...

  3. List of photographers - Wikipedia

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    Ghana. Edmund Abaka. Felicia Abban (born 1935) Robert Abban (born 1989) Campbell Addy (born c. 1993) Daniel Attoumou Amicchia (1908–1994) Philip Kwame Apagya (born 1958) Gilbert Asante.

  4. Black people - Wikipedia

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    Black is a racialized classification of people, usually a political and skin color-based category for specific populations with a mid- to dark brown complexion.Not all people considered "black" have dark skin; in certain countries, often in socially based systems of racial classification in the Western world, the term "black" is used to describe persons who are perceived as dark-skinned ...

  5. 2020 - Wikipedia

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    2020 ( MMXX) was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2020th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 20th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 1st year of the 2020s decade. The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global social and ...

  6. White Highlands - Wikipedia

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    The White Highlands is an area in the central uplands of Kenya. It was traditionally the homeland of indigenous Central Kenyan communities up to the colonial period, when it became the centre of European settlement in colonial Kenya , and between 1902 and 1961 was officially reserved for the exclusive use of Europeans by the colonial government.

  7. Meg Whitman - Wikipedia

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    Meg Whitman. Margaret Cushing Whitman (born August 4, 1956) is an American business executive, diplomat, and politician serving as the United States ambassador to Kenya since 2022. Whitman was president and chief executive officer (CEO) of eBay from 1998 to 2008. Afterwards, she became president and CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise from 2011 ...

  8. Ansel Adams - Wikipedia

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    Ansel Adams. Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a ...

  9. Lunch atop a Skyscraper - Wikipedia

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    Lunch atop a Skyscraper. Lunch atop a Skyscraper is a black-and-white photograph taken on September 20, 1932, of eleven ironworkers sitting on a steel beam 850 feet (260 meters) above the ground during construction of the RCA Building in Manhattan, New York City. It was arranged as a publicity stunt, part of a campaign promoting the skyscraper.