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The Dega flags
There is no single Dega flag. There have been at least eight, each made by a movement or an organization at a particular moment, and each carrying the history of the people who made it. Before any of them was sewn, a flag of our own was already a political demand: our leaders asked for one in 1955, in 1964, four times in 1965, in 1966 and in 196...
The bracelet
A ring of brass or copper on the wrist is one of the oldest bonds among our peoples. It settles an engagement and ends one; it pays the midwife and the broker; it is heated in coals and dropped into a jar of blood and rice beer so that men who should be enemies can drink and be bound. In 1964, on the morning of a mutiny, a Rhade shaman put three...
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