Looking after your skin is one of the most important things you can do for your body, and this becomes truer the older you become. (23) It is in view of these complications and difficulties that he proposes four research principles that could possibly push African historiography towards new frontiers: African history should be undertaken in an interdisciplinary form or within such a structure; it must uncompromisingly be viewed from an inner perspective; and it must unquestionably be the history of the peoples of the African continent; and it must avoid being too narrative, its point of approach should be conceptual and systematic. In the soul-searching that has followed South Africa’s first-round elimination from the 2010 World Cup, the first host nation to suffer such a fate, several retired soccer players are hearkening back to the days of apartheid, when the sport was played widely by people of all colors, … Read the rest