Tamaraneh Society Fundraiser for Sierra Leonean students - this Saturday
TAMARANEH FUNDRAISING DINNER Sat, Feb 9, 2008 (6 pm - 10 pm) Northgate Senior Lions’ Centre (7524 - 139 Ave) tamarineh.org The Faces are All Different By MINISTER FAUST African faces. Some people can’t tell them apart. And others see only the face of African tragic victimhood. Each false vision denies a range of beauty, individuality and hope. Humanity—and therefore the human face—began in Africa, somewhere around Kenya. The Leakey anthropology dynasty has been asserting this for half a century; it’s commonly accepted wisdom in science. But during a recent CBC report by Wendy Mesley on a DNA “roots-tracing” agency, street interviews suggested that few people know that Africa is humanity’s common home. Fewer still seemed to know that modern humans (Cro-Magnons) originated in Africa and only later spread out to Eurasia, Oceania and the Americas. How long they looked “African” is unknown—moreover, contrary to Western stereotypes, Africans do not form a monolithic physical type. As...