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...with Islam but also about the multiculturalism to be found among Islamic peoples. “They say that the religion itself can be likened to a clear river,” Cajee said. “When it flows over China, it looks Chinese; when it flows over Africa, it looks African.” Lipman’s talk, titled “Spotlight on: Chinese Muslims” and jointly organized with the Chinese Students Association, stressed similar points. He described the diversity of Chinese Muslims, who vary from practicing Turkic-speaking Uyghurs in the west...
...because we have not known what needs to be done,” he added. “Africa has no good reason to be the poorest of continents in this world...
Nduom is the latest in a series of guest speakers invited to the Harvard Kennedy School as part of the University’s “Africa Week”—seven days of events jointly coordinated by African student associations at the College, Law School, Kennedy School, Business School, and the School of Education...
Nduom’s experience in Ghanaian politics was “very relevant” to many African students studying away from their home countries, said Julia M. Mensah, who identified herself as a Kennedy School student serving as co-chair of the Africa Caucus there...
...warm summer's day in mid-January, South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress, held a rally in East London on the country's southern coast to launch its campaign for re-election. Inside the city's stadium, in a pen between the stage and a sea of supporters in the ANC colors of yellow, black and green, stood the party's VIPs. Many of the men wore Gucci and the women Prada, but mixed in with them were 60 or so people, of both sexes, in combat fatigues whose camo caps identified them as veterans of Umkhonto...