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On a night of pea-soup fog in January 1944, Eisenhower arrived in London as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force that would invade the Continent. Roosevelt had decided he simply could not spare Chief of Staff Marshall, the man everyone assumed would command D-day. Instead the order...
The years of colonialism essentially destroyed the social and political structures that had kept tribal peace for centuries. By 1959 the aggrieved Hutu majority rose up in rebellion; in some villages, machete-wielding gangs set upon the Tutsi and hacked off their feet, cutting them down to size. The Belgians...
In the sunniest version of South Africa's destiny, the country, being the strongest economy in Africa, will begin to lead the continent into the 21st century. But everyone's mind entertained a dark, simultaneous vision of disintegration: of economic disaster and tribal war. Images of Rwanda's Tutsi and...
The economic and political undertow in Africa these days is very fierce: young nations are gasping and going under. In some sense the leadership of a politically and economically successful South Africa may be the continent's last chance. The elections did not encourage the uglier projections. In fact, the...
Though Bush's dismissal may not be an uncontentious claim, the conflict brewing in the Balkans at least is not an American problem. U.S. interests are not materially at stake, nor does the conflict threaten to spread into a continent-wide conflagration.