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By Charles Kanjama
Some years ago, I read ‘A History of the Modern World’ by Paul Johnson. It is an illuminating account of history from 1917 to the 1980s. The author starts with a captivating sentence, “The modern world began on May 29, 1919, when photographs of a solar eclipse, taken on the island of Principe off West Africa and at Sobral in Brazil, confirmed the truth of a new theory of the universe...” Johnson goes on to tackle with academic rigour the stories and the stories behind the stories of the 20th century.
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