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Is it the media or the message? This is supposed to be the trip that changes Americans' view of Africa and rewrites the terms of U.S. policy. Yet the first, riveting picture bounced back across the Atlantic was of a frightened, scarlet-faced President Bill Clinton shouting "Back!" as he...
Still, the fact remains: too many Harvard students are unconcerned about Europe. Perhaps their indifference stems from fear of the unknown, fear of admitting ignorance and learning from it, fear of a continent that for centuries Americans regarded with awe. Perhaps it stems from simply not making an effort to...
There is a word we heard over and over in Africa: ubuntu. It's different in every dialect, but the meaning is always roughly the same: a complex, highly nuanced precept governing the way individuals relate to the community. Ubuntu is the organizing principle of the African mind, defining the...
In recognition of all that, Bill Clinton set off last Sunday on the first extensive tour of Africa by a sitting U.S. President. His aim is to cast a high-wattage spotlight on the continent's emerging democracies, economic growth and social progress and to promote a new relationship with...
This is not Africa, people will tell you in Eritrea. What they mean is that the country is astonishingly free of the social plagues that taint much of the continent. There is no tribalism or sectarian division here. National pride supersedes loyalties to nine main ethnic groups, at least 10...