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...center currently supports a wide array of research and policy projects worldwide—ranging from an effort aimed at increasing the efficiency of Ethiopian government agencies to a program that teaches applied economics to civil servants in Vietnam...
Soyinka, who is a prolific playwright, poet, and novelist, has also been a prominent political activist since he was imprisoned in 1967 after appealing in an article for a ceasefire in the Nigerian civil...
Gordimer spoke of Soyinka as “something absolutely indispensable to the African continent.” She then read from her story, “The Ultimate Safari,” an account of flight from the Mozambique Civil War, narrated by an eleven-year-old. The title, Gordimer noted, was taken from a European travel advertisement—which, she mused, most likely had “a different kind of Safari” in mind...
...King’s actions made the civil rights movement the most talked about struggle of the early 1960s. The NAACP had been fighting in the courts for decades when King and others began their activism. It had won substantial victories. But not until King and others began to use radical tactics did the country begin to focus on civil rights. The liberal clergy King chastised in his letter wanted integration, but they wanted a cautious approach. The problem, as King points out, is that when nobody directly demands changed policies, officials feel free to continually put off doing...
...torture before some crazy radical came and puked in our faces. This argument has some legitimacy. Vomit is more newsworthy than the CIA’s history, just like PSLM’s sit in was more newsworthy than the poverty of Harvard’s workers and civil disobedience was more newsworthy than the brutality of Jim Crow. The fact that these tactics generate more discussion than the issues that prompt them demonstrates their effectiveness. In the real word, most people don’t talk about issues—at least not with the prospect of immediate action?...