In a way, it is uplifting to see South Africa's new black millionaires flashing their Rolex watches and being grovelled to by managers of the very restaurants that used to exclude them.

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In the mid-1960s, he developed a new African dance music influenced by places both in and outside Africa, including black America and the Middle East.

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At the United Nations Global Youth Leadership Summit, which took place in New York in October of last year, Da Gama invited black celebrities to come to Africa to be the face of malaria.

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