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It seems a plausible, even indispensable vision: Africans reunited at last with themselves, with their cultures and governments, brought home after centuries of terrible alienation. But then Museveni goes on, "Today 50 out of 100 Ugandans can't read or write. If 90 out of 100 can read and write...
Lacking detailed knowledge of precisely where our ancestors came from, whether they were Fon or Ashanti or Serer, African Americans have tried to adopt the continent as a whole as a place of origin. But that indiscriminate embrace poses problems of its own: Which of the hundreds of languages and...
Given this, and a good deal more that is off-putting, Viking deserves much credit for taking on the titanic seven-novel cycle that Vollmann calls Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes. The theme is mighty -- the repeated collisions between European and Native American cultures -- and perhaps no...
Statistics on the number of bisexuals are unreliable since people who engage in such behavior often do not call themselves bisexual. But the ability to respond erotically to both sexes seems to be a common human trait. Bisexuality frequently occurs among male and female adolescents in many cultures and is...
Culture is undoubtedly important as well. "It's a lot like eating," says Richard Parker, professor of medical anthropology and human sexuality at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. "We all have an urge to feed ourselves. But whether we like Thai food or American meat and potatoes depends...