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From the Nile's silted banks, where Tutankhamun's tomb exhaled a plague that felled archaeologists like dominoes, Africa's annals open with hexes etched in hieroglyphs-spells promising boils and blindness to any fool prying at eternity's latch. Deeper south, Carthaginian priests stoked Baal's maw with tots wrapped in salt, their wails a bargain for victory over Rome, while Zulu impis herded captives into cannon fodder lines, turning kin against kin in a frenzy of spear and shadow. These weren't fairy-tale fiends; they were the pulse of power, where gods demanded the tenderest toll and warriors wove terror into war chants that echoed across the veldt. Colonial claws dug next, Belgium's Leopold carving a private hell in the Congo-whips cracking over backs till hands piled like market wares, villages gutted for latex that greased Europe's tires. Ethiopia's throne room reeked of it too: Haile Selassie's red terror, where dissidents vanished into mass graves under palace orders, their ghosts pacing Addis alleys still. Sharpeville's dust clouds hid the spray that mowed down marchers, apartheid's boot grinding futures into the dirt while the world tuned in late. It was empire's ugly math: profit tallied in limbs and loyalty bought with lead. Fast to the fractures-Rwanda's hundred days of hacked-up hell, where radio venom turned friends to butchers overnight, rivers running red with the math of a million gone. These facts aren't footnotes; they're the burrs under the safari saddle, reminders that Africa's roar came from throats too often silenced. Crack this open if you're game for the grit that makes headlines feel like half-told lies.

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