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...comes from a family of scientists. Father Chaman has a doctorate in engineering, and won a Presidential award for his work in getting water to African villages. Kashkari's mother, Sheila, is a retired pathologist, and his sister Meera, specializes in infectious diseases...
...another unprintable epithet. They shut up when my wife, an American citizen who is ethnic Chinese, berated them for their racist language. (Williams, by the way, won the tournament.) What, I wonder today, would those men say about Barack Obama, who soon could be the U.S.'s first African-American President...
...Ibrahim's experiences as an entrepreneur in Africa that convinced him to set up his foundation and create a $5 million annual prize for the African leader who best personifies responsible and credible government, which he saw as the key to African development. So why are things changing now? "[As] John Githongo [Kenya's former anticorruption czar] says, 'The democracy genie is out of the bottle,' " notes Hania Farhan, the foundation's director of research. "There will be violent ructions and eruptions, like Kenya or Zimbabwe or Nigeria, but the trend is there, and it is remarkable. Africans want their...
...Although the idea of an African renaissance of good governance and economic development had been championed by the likes of South Africa's former President Thabo Mbeki and other veterans of the struggle to end white rule on the continent, Farhan argues that it's precisely because the liberation-era movements are on the wane - as South Africa's African National Congress seemed to be last week, amid a very public schism - that governance is improving. "Those movements used to say, We have the right to stay in power because we are a liberation movement," she says. Across the continent...
...Click here for images of Africa by young African photographers...