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Since the June elections, Nigerians have been unwilling to let a few strongmen thwart the wishes of the many. Citizens took to the streets last month in violent demonstrations that left more than 100 dead. That stirred fears -- crudely exploited by the government -- of massive unrest or even a return to the tribal war that killed an estimated 1 million Nigerians two decades ago. But leaders of the Campaign for Democracy, a human-rights group spearheading the antigovernment demonstrations, insist that this is not an ethnic conflict. This fight is between those who want to bring democracy to Africa...
...correspondent Peter Hawthorne, a resident of South Africa for 30 years, has perhaps the most visceral connection to the story: while covering the unrest after Mandela's 1990 release from jail, he was struck with police bird shot, and the pellets are still embedded in his chest. "South Africans swing between moods of deep despair and cautious hope," says Hawthorne. "This week hope is again ascendant." It seems optimism comes from a place too deep for any firearm to reach...
...response to the anti-authoritarianism of the young radicals, the right suddenly restyled itself as the defender of authority in all its manifestations -- legal, familial, religious and military. "Traditional values" made their first tentative debut in the '68 Republican campaign, when Spiro Agnew promised to cure social unrest with a mass spanking. It was in '68 that a "New Right" -- toughened with the grass- roots racism of George Wallace, fortified intellectually by the neoconservatives -- emerged to uphold the traditional icons of God, family and flag...
...1980s boom crested, rising taxes and other costs were gobbling up much of the national income gain of the middle class, while public services and the governmental safety net were starting to deteriorate. By the end of the decade, these economic effects were producing political unrest...
Western experts do not dispute the President's claims entirely. But Egypt would face a fundamentalist threat even if Iran and Sudan did not exist. Homegrown poverty, overpopulation, poor housing and rampant corruption would almost certainly stir radicalism and unrest without any agitation from outside...