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This week Al Zambone talks with his colleague Todd Cleveland about Todd’s new book Stones of Contention: A History of Africa’s Diamonds. During their conversation they touch on the interaction between geological history and human history; the moral difficulties of determining what a conflict diamond actually is; how this history is related to how outsiders have always imagined the African continent; and whether Todd would, knowing what he now knows, still buy a diamond.