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...Oscar. In 70 years of deciding the merits and failings of film, the Academy Awards have been glorified and vilified, denounced as narrow-minded political dealings between Hollywood muckety-mucks and praised as clearly focused ideals of what is and isn't great about film-making...
...longer the whole picture. Academics, diplomats and bankers who do business there talk seriously these days about an African renaissance. A grand word, it turns out, for the slow, fragile, difficult changes that are giving the continent a second chance. But the description fits. Out of sight of our narrow focus on disaster, another Africa is rising, an Africa that works: the Africa of Mozambique and Mali and Eritrea and Ghana, of South Africa and Uganda, Benin and Botswana, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Tanzania...
...progressive, honest and efficient in their exercise of power. Eritrea's President Issaias is but one of them, along with South Africa's Nelson Mandela, Uganda's Yoweri Museveni, Rwanda's Paul Kagame, Botswana's Quett Ketumile Masire. National reconciliation where necessary, national cohesion everywhere, the sublimation of narrow loyalties to a larger good...
...where tens of thousands of Africans were herded into cramped holding pens to be fattened up for the Middle Passage to a life of slavery in the New World. Their last contact with the African motherland came at the Door of No Return, where they were whipped across a narrow gangplank to the slave ships...
...addition, Internet-only broadcasters like TheDJ (www.thedj.com) and NetRadio (www.netradio.net) provide hundreds of channels, from Reggae-only stations to "classic 1990s rock" (figure that one out). Without the costs of transmitters and licenses, these broadcasters can appeal at low costs to very narrow audiences that were previously underserved by traditional radio stations and their geographic constraints...