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...brutal honesty on the causes of Africa's woes, it's hard to beat Chinua Achebe's The Trouble with Nigeria. Written during the country's rowdy 1983 election campaign, the book, just 68 pages long, is an outpouring of frustration at Nigeria's problems. You only have to read the contents page to tap into Achebe's angst. The author - best known for Things Fall Apart, a powerful work of fiction that almost half a century after its release still tops lists of Africa's greatest novels - uses blunt prose to deliver the message in Trouble. Chapter headings telegraph...
...Today's young European Muslims are angry, but no more so than young Tibetans, South Africans or East Timorese. Still, those young people have not resorted to acts of jihadist terrorism. Furthermore, Islamic extremism is not only a European issue. It also exists in Malaysia, Nigeria, Sudan, Kenya and Indonesia?countries that have had nothing to do with the war in Iraq, which TIME says is the galvanizing issue of Muslim radicalization in Europe. Andrew Onoro Birmingham, England...
...doesn’t want to be, an informative or documentary novel. Iweala says his goal in writing the book was to “be engaging and make people think.” To create the proper atmosphere, he coupled the landscape of his native Nigeria with events that have happened in other countries. “The experiences of child soldiers are similar everywhere,” Iweala explains.And though the lack of specificity can sometimes be wearisome, it allows for a stronger emphasis on the emotional dimensions of Agu’s story, which achieves the level...
...Even if my own family were killed by a jihadi's bomb, I would say it's the will of Allah." That statement reveals in unambiguous terms the mind-set of every radical Muslim across the globe, whether in Europe, the U.S., Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan or my home country, Nigeria. No right-thinking person can justify in the name of religion the taking of a single human life. Today's young people are searching for meaning and a community with human values, which an impersonal and technologically driven Europe cannot offer them. Materialism and consumerism don't inspire them...
Riders for Health recently expanded into Gambia and Nigeria and diversified its fleet to include refrigerated trucks, minivans and ambulances. Zimbabwe is one of the group's showcase countries, with 1,000 vehicles, each of which is responsible for delivering health care to a region that may contain 20,000 patients. In the country's Binga district alone, deaths from malaria plunged 20% thanks to the ability of motorcycles to deliver mosquito-resistant bed nets and keep health-care workers mobile. As the Colemans have shown, when you keep workers mobile, you keep people alive...