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When in 1946 Winston Churchill called for a United States of Europe, so soon after the World War II, many must have…

A few months into trying to organize the first Toward an Africa without Borders Conference in 2002 it suddenly hit me -…

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Some of the most important threats to democracy in Africa are the International Republican Institute (IRI), USAID and other international NGO’s that…

Roots of Optimism and Contradictions The Berlin Wall is dismantled brick by brick in November of 1989.  It becomes a symbol of…