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...directly in decision-making, pathologies and prejudices internal to the operation of power invariably emerge.History is replete with examples of this dynamic: Consider Kwame Nkrumah’s fall from grace in post-colonial Ghana. Prior to decolonization, Nkrumah wrote prolifically and incisively on the perversities of imperialism in Africa. Yet, once in power, confronted by threats to the privilege that he had been elected into, Nkrumah moved to protect his position by repressing autonomous politics, once even telling agitating workers that their “former role of struggling against capitalists [was] obsolete.” Thus, regardless...
...says Refaï. Scores of members of the Tunisian Islamic organization Ennahdha have been jailed or exiled to Europe. This crackdown has intensified since Algeria's Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat last year renamed itself al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and vowed to recruit terrorists across North Africa. In January, at least 14 people were killed in gun battles between security forces and groups of militants who had slipped across the border from Algeria...
...wits and prosper in the global economy, just like the nations of southeast Asia. In Asia, it's often been said - though never proved - that economic success leads ineluctably to political openness. That hasn't happened in Tunisia as yet; but it would be really something - for North Africa, the Arab world, and international society generally...
...year appointment at the IOP in September after former director Jeanne Shaheen left to run for U.S. Senate as a Democrat from New Hampshire, was known as one of the most progressive Republicans in Congress.Tony J. Leon, a fall IOP fellow and former opposition leader in South Africa, said he was pleased to find that Leach is not a “smashmouth.”“He speaks with a quiet voice but commands a lot of authority,” Leon said.True to form, Leach wore a slightly rumpled sweater in hisinterview with The Crimson...
...year-old prince, third in line to the British throne, has been embroiled in several embarrassing incidents over the past few years. He was photographed sporting a Nazi Africa Korps uniform, replete with swastika armband, at a costume party in January 2005, and has fielded allegations from the British press for smoking marijuana and underage drinking. Video footage surfaced earlier in October that appeared to show him snorting vodka...