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The prevalence of the AIDS virus in central Africa has led researchers to speculate that the disease originated on that continent. Harvard's Essex believes the scourge got its start in monkeys, specifically the African green monkey. In sampling the blood of 200 greens from this region, Essex found that...
As the father of homespun African socialism, he has been one of the Third World's most prominent statesmen. But to the more than 20 million people of Tanzania, the nation he founded, Julius Kambarage Nyerere, 63, is best known simply as Mwalimu, Ki-swahili for "teacher." Although he has...
Yet in many ways, Nyerere managed to improve the lot of his people. He instilled a sense of national pride among the country's diverse tribal groups, and promoted Ki-swahili as the national language, factors that have contributed to Tanzania's having what is perhaps the lowest level of...
Vaguely aware of high HIV/AIDS rates on the African continent, I was overwhelmed as Aubourg’s presentation rolled through the statistics that have become increasingly familiar to me, yet have never lost their sting as a reminder of the level of human catastrophe which faces us at the...
In the 1940s of Chow's teeming fantasy, Shanghai is terrorized by the Axe Gang, a thug team as dapper as they are vicious: they don black suits and top hats, and rumba to a rumble. Only one area, Pig Sty Alley, is temporarily immune to their predations--in part...