Commonword's chief executive, Peter Kalu, feared the clubs might be wrongly labelled as centres of iniquity.
Beirut, Baghdad, Tehran and Amman flourished as centres of artistic excellence.
However, Brazil's Mato Grosso and Para states are now seen as centres of illegal deforestation.
Eventually towns grew up as centres of church or feudal authority, of marketing or trade.
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They served as sources of spiritual comfort and also as centres for village social life.
They are notable as centres of the cloth trade and for their architecture (see African architecture).
Under Songhai, Djenné and Timbuktu flourished as centres of both trade and Islamic scholarship.
Places of worship used as centres for "fomenting extremism" are to be closed down.
What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique.
In this period the emerging nation-states of Europe began to compete with the church as centres of power.
