The western half of the continent can still seem far off when viewed from the middle.
In the western half of the continent, Mexican packers met English and French trappers and explorers, and traded their packing tricks.
The focus of the new Africa Boogaloo anthology shifts to Afro-Cuban music's impact on the western coast of the continent, in countries such as Senegal, Benin, Gambia, Congo and so on.
As U.S. attention waned, there was a feeling in Washington that a military presence needed to be established to discourage the Soviet Union from meddling in Europe, especially in the western part of the continent.
Samuelson, known for introducing African spices to Western dishes, is using the continent's culinary traditions to expose Africa to a wider audience.
Though the Pentecostal church made major inroads to Kenya only in the 1950s, many of its supporters, and other faithful in the continent, consider homosexuality a Western concept.
U.S. journalist and hitchhiker Tony Horwitz's account of thumbing his way around Western Australia and the rest of the sunburned continent.
And while surface stations show slight warming for its Western Peninsula, temperatures over most of the continent have been stable or cooling since 1960.
Scientists say the western Antarctic peninsula -- the piece of the continent that stretches toward South America -- has warmed more than any other place on Earth over the past 50 years, rising by 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit each decade.
The German residential market is attractive partly because Germans enjoy the continent's healthiest economy but pay the lowest relative rents in Western Europe, according to Green Street.
The leaders of Zimbabwe and Namibia took turns haranguing western leaders, especially Britain's Tony Blair, for meddling in the continent, even though southern Africa, much of which is in the grip of famine, depends on foreign help to feed around 14m people.
Half a continent away from the headquarters of the Australian industry in Adelaide, the Western Australians tend to be smaller-scale producers, independent of the four big wine companies that dominate the business.
Designers hailed from across the continent, such as Lebanese-Ivorian Elien Kuame, whose elegant cocktail dresses blended both western and African traditional styles.
He also called for a deeper commitment to basic education across the continent, where school enrollment levels are dangerously low in some regions, and called on western pharmaceutical manufacturers to work to find cost-effective ways to provide preventative medicines and vaccines to curb the high rates of AIDS and tuberculosis through much of the continent.
Western aid agencies, Chinese mining companies and U.N. peacekeepers have done their bit, but the continent's main saviors are its own people.
However, the prosperity and economic activity seen in the mining fields of Western Australia and northern Queensland - the so-called quarry of the world - has not spread across this vast continent.
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