Word: africas
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...compliment. A Hindustan Times column sniffed that it is a patronizing "reflex of lost Empire" to praise ancient Indian painters through the works of modern Western ones. "The British Museum is a robber's cave and testimonial to the 'engulf and devour' Western worldview that Asia and Africa know intimately to their considerable cost," the column continued. True, the British Museum and Kew Gardens were founded in the 1750s, when Britain bestrode the world. But in a year when a Bollywood-style movie triumphed at the Oscars, when pundits have taken to warning of the West's demise...
...reporters returned, followed by mercenaries, and then - with the arrival of a second fragile peace after President Charles Taylor's defeat and exile in 2003 - a wild-eyed group of Western carpetbaggers after a quick buck. It was only when Harvard-educated Ellen Johnson Sirleaf won office as Africa's first elected woman head of state in 2005 and promised wholesale reform that the Mamba Point began to welcome what Bsaibes calls "respectables" - executives from multinationals eyeing Liberia for opportunities and, to Bsaibe's delight, government ministers. "This is the only time we feel that when the government come...
...Obama described a future anchored in institutions of governance and international agreement, where tribal identities would be subsumed by a common sense of humanity and international economics would turn old national competitions into alliances. He portrayed the peaceful transfer of power in competitive democracies as the next step in Africa's century-long emergence from the shackles of colonial rule. "This progress may lack the drama of the 20th century's liberation struggles," he said. "But make no mistake: it will ultimately be more significant. For just as it is important to emerge from the control of another nation...
...This rhetorical praise of human rights and justice has remained a core tenet of Obama's foreign policy, though his arrival in Africa is marked by mixed signs of political progress. Recent years have brought coups to Mauritania, Madagascar and Guinea, and distorted or disputed elections in Nigeria, Kenya and Zimbabwe. It was to this continued unrest that Obama seemed to direct his message, which was clearly scripted more for an African audience than an American one. The U.S. State Department arranged for listening events in several countries on the continent to get the message out. "Africa's future...
...Obama came to tell Africans that they themselves could one day be a model of democratic government, much as Ghana has been a model in the region. "We all have many identities - of tribe and ethnicity; of religion and nationality," the president said, preaching his universal vision of humanity. "Africa's diversity should be a source of strength, not a cause for division." Obama was, once again, bringing the philosophies he adopted as a community organizer in Chicago to the world stage, this time in Africa as perhaps the world's most powerful man. When he was done, the Ghanaian...