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Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting from African countries by leading American journalists is a latecomer within the award category for international coverage.
It took almost close to two decades after the establishment of the awards that reporting about the Italian-Ethiopian crisis was declared prize-worthy by the Pulitzer Prize jurors. During World War II prizes were given for the coverage of the North African battlefields. Since the 1960s inner-African conflicts like unrests in the Congo impressed the jurors as well as the Apartheid system in South Africa.
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Heinz-Dietrich Fischer, Institute for Media Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.