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Farai Chideya

CTL-E-1043 · Institution · other · 1990s

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Journalist who launched Popandpolitics.com (1995), cited as one of the world's earliest blogs and an early Black independent digital publisher.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from TECH-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-TECH-001:TECH-E-030; source research type(s): None.

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