Word: continentality
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What were your ambitions for the Continent? At the beginning of the 1970s, I was in the Cabinet of French Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas and I watched the dollar wavering, the end of the Bretton Woods system and the first oil crisis. Faced with all that, I saw Europe...
Yes, for a simple reason. Europe is the Continent of doubt, philosophically speaking. We have always been men and women who, especially in intellectual life, have called into question our own judgments. This gives a unique flavor and drama to life; that's the European personality.
In the days before Senegal's sixth multiparty presidential election since independence from France in 1960, rival political camps clashed violently and frequently in the streets. While factionalism exercised at the end of a stick may be a standard part of the political process in many parts of Africa, it...
I was glad to see that your article about the Deh family of Ghana gave a nuanced portrayal of Africa rather than the clichéd depiction we often see [March 19]. Your report was honest because at the center it was a human story. Having lived in Ghana's Volta...
Your report captured the essence of a continent's conundrum. Delight Deh is the embodiment of the African whose hopes and dreams are incessantly shuttered by the archetypal African Big Man, such as Presidents Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe. My prayers go out for Delight. He...