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required reading for africa’s ruling elite
The discourse on Africa in the West (and elsewhere) is laden with a lot of offensive stuff. And the offensive stuff is not restricted to plebes in the streets or newspaper articles written by...
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africa’s endless conflicts
The New York Times’ Jeffrey Gettleman has a thought-provoking piece in Foreign Policy. I don’t particularly buy his doomsday analysis (most of the Continent will definitely not head the Somalia way)...
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failed states index
Foreign Policy, in its July/August issue has 2010’s failed states index. The Continent has 12 of the top 20 worst performers on this index, with Somalia, Chad, Sudan, Zimbabwe and the DRC being in the...
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is france messing up africa?
Elizabeth Dickinson at FP asks. Whatever the answer might be one thing is clear: France still has commercial and geopolitical interests in French-speaking Africa and would love to maintain close ties...
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southern sudan
As the January 9th, 2011 referendum draws closer the international community is getting concerned about the consequences of Southern Sudanese independence. Many fear that the north, led by the...
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africa’s Middle class
Elizabeth Dickinson at FP reports: Given all this, perhaps the only thing about Africa that isn’t changing quickly is our perceptions of it. There’s an image impressed in all of our minds of a starving...
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The missing big thinkers
In order to think big your country/region must have some geopolitical significance… or so it seems. Here is a quote from the comment section on Dan Drezner’s post on the big thinkers that were...
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On the unintended consequences of the Sachs-Kristoff syndrome
Badvocacy alert! With due apologies to the eminent economist and journalist. Invisible Children’s Kony 2012 publicity push is generating some backlash. Here is quoting Under the Banyan: Critics of the...
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Drezner on the academic/policy divide
As someone who plans to straddle the academic/policy divide I found Drezner’s (over at FP) recent post quite interesting. Here is an excerpt: I think the academic/policy divide has been wildly...
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US Africa Policy, A Response
This is a guest post by friend of the blog Matthew Kustenbauder responding to a previous post. On the question of human rights guiding America’s foreign policy in Africa, I agree with you; it shouldn’t...
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This rather openly racist guy is now Prime Minister of the United Kingdom: What a relief it must be for Blair to get out of England. It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly...
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