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Glittering treasures, gleaming coins, and eye-catching jewelry\\u2026gold can be all of these things, but in some parts of the world it's also an enduring link to the past. Gus Casely-Hayford, director of the Smithsonian\\u2019s National Museum of African Art, takes us on a journey through West Africa to learn how gold was the foundation for massive empires\\u2014and his own family\\u2014and how it continues shining brightly in West African culture today.
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