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Airlift to America
A scholarship programme for young Africans which started in the late 1950s eventually led to the first african-american President of the United States. Claire Bowes looks into the African Airlift Foundation.
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BBC World Service Online
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- Mon 4 Jan 201000:50GMTBBC World Service Online
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