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Tag: Africa

Refugee camps, intended to be temporary, host people for an average of 12 years.

Elizabeth Cullen Dunn

Nigeria's recent election encouraged alliances among Muslims and Christians.

Laura Premack

The passage of the Group Areas Act in 1950 brought forceful expulsion and sequestration to all areas of the country.

Jessica Pothering
The real reasons this outbreak has turned into an epidemic are weak health systems and lack of workforce.
Michele Barry

After twenty years of electoral dominance by the African National Congress, are South African politics finally becoming competitive?

Tim Cohen

The U.S. is funding development in restive Northern Nigeria, but soft power isn't blunting anti-American sentiments.

Ameto Akpe

OneTouch travels the African continent, showcasing its natural beauty.

Rose Odengo

Migrants are dying as they cross the Mediterranean. Is there a better way?

David Bacon

The cause of Camus's native countrymen moved him, yet he yearned helplessly toward the European culture that had formed him.

Vivian Gornick

An interview with activist Peter Tatchell.

Tinashe Mushakavanhu

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie discusses her new novel, Americanah—a love story that delves into the complexities of race with humor and empathy.

Aaron Bady

The Liberian army embarks on its first combat mission since the end of the country's brutal civil war.

Clair MacDougall
Today, the “savage nature” of Africa is still on display.
Jina Moore

The Egyptian uprising has been rightly celebrated as a momentous event.

Mona El-Ghobashy
At the offices of Kwani — a literary agitator without peer. 
Anna Clark
The man who imagines himself king of kings.
Robert P. Baird

The Egyptian revolution, viewed from the center of Cairo.

Ahmed Moor

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Many development experts promote information and communication technology (ICT) as a way to relieve global poverty. They should pay more attention to the human beings who use it.

Kentaro Toyama
Can mobile phones make a miracle?
Isaac M. Mbiti, Jenny C. Aker
Albie Sachs’s The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law.
Ryan Thoreson

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Progress in the world's poorest region.

Edward Miguel

Becoming human in South Africa.

Zakes Mda

Though both the victims and perpetrators of human rights violations on African soil have been Africans, the pursuit of justice has been conducted largely by international institutions.

Owen Fiss

The new generation of Nigerian writers.

Andrée Greene

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