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...class and African American,” she said. “I feel like the struggles of the people in Oaxaca are similar to the struggles of African Americans in America.” Ogunnaike will use his fellowship to study music in the West African country of Mali. He has been playing the djembe drum since his freshman year and, last year, helped start the Harvard College Pan-African Dance Ensemble. Riley said she intends to travel to Seychelles, an island chain in the Indian Ocean off the coast of east Africa, to work with...
...parent watching your child, so proud, and so worried. Your neighbors' son was a nationally ranked swimmer, straight As, great boards, nice kid. Got rejected at his top three choices, wait-listed at two more. Who gets into Yale these days anyway? Maybe they should have sent him to Mali for the summer to dig wells, fight malaria, give him something to write about in his essay...
Resistance varies from country to country. Nigeria, Mali and Equatorial Guinea, like Uganda, are mainstreaming traditional practitioners. But in South Africa, legislation formalizing the role of healers has met stiff opposition from doctors. "Can you imagine the chaos that would take place in South Africa if traditional healers are allowed to authorize people to receive pensions and disability grants?" says Heinrich Botes of the nonprofit group Doctors for Life International...
...supplying Team U.S.A. and Britain's Umbro sponsoring England, "I can only hope France will now chose a French company like Airness to supply its uniforms." The French national team playing in a brand created in the projects by a man who immigrated to France from a village in Mali - that would be something...
...contrast Gandhi and Singh cut with the typical Indian politician is striking. India regularly comes in the bottom half of Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, tied with Moldova and Mali at 88th out of 158 countries last year. This January, in its Mood of the Nation issue, the weekly newsmagazine India Today found less than half of those surveyed expressed any trust in their MPs. So low is India's opinion of its political leaders, in fact, that a new college, the M.I.T. School of Government, opened last September in the central city of Pune with...