Aida: America’s Confederates in Egypt
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Giuseppe Verdi's “Aida” depicts an Africa with Ethiopians in chains. In reality, that was an imperialist dream unrealized by Egyptian Khedive Ismail Pasha and the American Confederates that colluded with him.
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