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...what can be done--for the people of Kenya and their 788 million fellow sub-Saharan Africans? For the West, part of the answer lies in holding African governments accountable for the graft and misrule that sow popular disgruntlement. The West largely contents itself with the appearance of democracy in Africa, not the reality, and gives billions of dollars in aid to corrupt governments. "The World Bank runs around establishing anti-corruption commissions," says Joel Barkan, a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington who was in Kenya for the vote. "They have been singularly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Demons That Still Haunt Africa | 1/10/2008 | See Source »

...with [Western] electric instruments." He describes the music as a patchwork, similar to the hodge-podge clothing worn by members of his Baye Fall religion, a Sufi branch of Islam which subsitutes Koranic studies and piety for hard labor. The group's motto dieuf dieul ("you reap what you sow") impels followers to show their devotion to god through work; in Kane's case, through his music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mixing Music and Politics in Africa | 9/4/2007 | See Source »

...with nothing to his name but a grammar school education." Religious mores render the femme fatale interpretation even more unlikely. Had she entrapped an unwilling innocent in God-fearing Stratford, Anne would "have found herself up before the Vicar's Court in less time than it takes to sow a wild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rethinking Anne Hathaway | 8/29/2007 | See Source »

...Baghdad-connected highways that run through Madain make the area a natural transit point for the bombers that sow mayhem in the capital. A preferred insurgent tactic for evading detection is to construct car bombs and IEDs as close as possible to their target in or around Baghdad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Thin Green Line Outside Baghdad | 8/1/2007 | See Source »

...light at the end of the tunnel, that it's not impossible to end the rule of dictators backed by men in military uniform. Now it's time for other pro-democracy leaders to get under one umbrella and offer a progressive vision. Now is the time to sow the seeds of democracy in Pakistan and marginalize the nation's extremists. Arvind K. Pandey, Allahabad, India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 7/12/2007 | See Source »

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