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...History warns that revolution lurks within these "contradictions," but history also reminds us how beleaguered regimes have traditionally dealt with the volcano inside. The classic prescription is to "busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels," as Shakespeare's Henry IV told his successor. It is hyper-nationalism and xenophobia that fuses regime and people, rich and poor, losers and winners in one Great National Whole. Jingoism is the traditional antidote against discontent and revolt, and the Chinese have been made to lap from this fount aplenty. Remember the week-long war of the aroused masses against the U.S. diplomatic compound...
...seat performance house, complete with classic, gilded, Louis XVI-style chandeliers, was funded completely by the Carr Foundation. Created in February of 1999, the foundation concentrates on human rights education and the arts...
...seat performance house, complete with classic, gilded, Louis XVI-style chandeliers, was funded completely by the Carr Foundation. Created in February of 1999, the foundation concentrates on human rights education and the arts...
...life in Matapari’s small Congolese village is not all traditional African magicians and self-important Catholic missionaries, characters that have become almost standard in African post-colonial fiction since Chinua Achebe’s classic Things Fall Apart. Set in the 1980s and 1990s amid political turbulence in the Congo Republic, Matapari’s childhood is one where government upheavals are played out on television, where Coca-Cola infiltrates local grocery markets and where Dragonball Z and Terminator movies have as much clout as provincial folklore. As in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight?...
...afraid the committee's description of the book as an "anachronism" is on the mark. July amazes the complacent, well-to-do white family - and by implication the complacent well-to-do white reader - with his kindness, resourcefulness and wisdom. In other words, he's the classic "noble savage" of 19th- and early-20th-century literature. He may not be educated or know what a bell curve is, but his heart's in the right place. It is, in many ways, a moving book, but for a new country, a new African country, the depiction of an uneducated black servant...