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Barack Obama may be sympathetic to Africa‘s problems, but solving them requires US policy changes he can’t possibly make. When, during…
Mukoma wa Ngugi
Countee Cullen, a black American poet, once asked: What is Africa to me? With the US elections just days away,…
To travel Kenya to Mali, one has to apply for a visa at the French consulate in Kenya. Conversely, to travel from Senegal…
[Note: Mukoma Wa Ngugi’s ZNet article, “Africa and the Middle East”, was published in Kenya’s Daily Nation, where Israel’s ambassador to Kenya…
Violence without Borders Africa is in the thick of the conflicts in the Middle East. With Iraq up in flames and an…
Introduction The devastation of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina is being compared to disasters in the “Third World†but with no specific…