Word: continentality
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It was arguably the biggest news in science this month: A graduate student in Australia discovered the continent of Africa.
Dr. Green, a senior research scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health, directed the Harvard AIDS Prevention Research Project and had worked and researched extensively on the HIV pandemic afflicting sub-Saharan Africa. And his conclusions, expressing agreement with Pope Benedict XVI—who, on his recent trip...
A former Ghanaian presidential candidate criticized African leadership for contributing to the problems ravaging the continent at an intimate talk on African political change and its challenges at the Kennedy School last night.
“It is appropriate that we recognize that we Africans have been made poor by bad leadership, across the continent,” Nduom said.
To be fair, the ANC is far from the worst example of a revolutionary movement lapsed into self-enrichment and autocracy. But because South Africa is the continent's biggest economy and natural leader, the ANC is a role model and has influence beyond South Africa's borders. That's...