Word: continentality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The World Bank report looked at the African regression: modest development after independence in the '60s, stagnation in the '70s, decline in the '80s. Factors such as drought and the oil crisis obviously played a role. But the principal cause of the continent's wasting disease was seen as a...
So Africa improvises its own unofficial social contract, one deal at a time. People are brilliant at adapting to the impossible conditions created by their governments. That is the difficulty: such adaptation has allowed ramshackle government practices to continue too long, postponing the catharsis the continent needs to purge itself...
Europeans, as the historian Basil Davidson writes, destroyed the moral universe of the continent. Colonialism imposed a different cultural universe with its alien definitions of God and progress and the rule of law. Now postcolonial Africa is defined as being on "the margins" of that universe. But, says Babacar N...
The main story was written by New York City-based senior writer Lance Morrow, for whom Africa has been a longtime passion. Morrow has made two trips there: in 1986, to write a cover story on African animals, and in 1988, to explore on foot the Mathews Range of northern...
Every black American who journeys to Africa seeks an answer to that question -- and I was no different during the 2 1/2 years I spent as a Time correspondent on the continent I think of as the motherland.