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A few of the other runners sniggered when they saw Abebe Bikila turn up at the start of the Olympic marathon with no shoes. As a television camera scanned the scrum of athletes readying themselves for the starter's gun, a commentator asked: "And what's this Ethiopian called?" It...
Patricia Gray, the head of the library's Poetry and Literature Center, describes the laureateship as an "iconic" position. It is the highest honor for a poet in this country, bestowed by the Librarian of Congress, who consults with former laureates, the current laureate and poetry critics in making his...
And just as those soccer stars caused a dramatic upset by beating France, Senegal's former colonial master, at the World Cup in 2002, so has the Scrabble squad long since bested the French at their own game. The country may have an adult literacy rate of just under 40...
I wish Africa had only one Mugabe. However, when Mugabe attended the recent African Union leaders' meeting - fresh from an "election" marked by murder, torture and intimidation - nobody rebuked him or asked him to step down. That is because all the other leaders are doing similar things. In Egypt, Eritrea...
Moreover, ethnic Chinese arriving from the mainland - who also suffer from Hong Kongers' bias - aren't protected from racial discrimination because the law deals only with ethnicity, not nationality. "In the colonial past, signs used to say 'No Chinese or dogs allowed,'" says Law Yuk-Kai of the Hong Kong...