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ON JUNE 9, hundreds of African government officials, business leaders and financiers will arrive in Lisbon to attend the 46th annual meeting of the African Development Bank. There’s a historical and commercial logic in the Portuguese capital hosting the meeting. The European nation’s connection to Africa goes back to the 15th century when its sailors began exploring the continent’s coasts, eventually annexing territory in both the southwest and southeast.
Yet there’s a big irony, too, brutally demonstrating how the tables have turned for the country that built Europe’s first global empire.
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