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Gates is investing increased resources in building up African Studies. This greater focus on Africa is long overdue. It is difficult to imagine how the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and AAAS could prioritize the study of a roughly 40 million-strong demographic group, however important, within a single country...
Secondly, the vast continent of Africa teems with over 1,000 languages of varying currencies. A choice of four, even if they are among the most widely spoken, is incomplete, arbitrary, and of limited utility. Studying one of these languages means that at an early stage in his intellectual journey...
The African Studies program should emphasize study that facilitates deeply understanding the challenges of African countries and working to practically meet them. Such knowledge includes history, political science, sociology, anthropology, (development) economics, public health, and environmental studies. Study of African culture and arts is of secondary importance, but is also...
...seen as the biggest global obstacle to free and fair trade, and the E.U.'s claims to leadership in the wto sounded hollow. So is there any chance that 2006 will be brighter? "Economic reform is the A and Z of Europe now," says MacShane. Perhaps once the big Continental economies pick up, he suggests, Europe can feel its oats again. Others doubt whether Europe's current crisis-laden leadership has the clout and vision necessary to deliver any viable solutions. "The European integration process is in a very different place now to 10 or 20 years...
My nomination is for Africa as Continent of the Year. In 2005 global attention was focused on the plight of her people. Africa needs a fair break from the rest of the world and the determination to address its own problems. It is essential that all humankind join in the...