USA Africa Dialogue Series - Paul Theroux Critiques Philanthropy in Africa
"Never mind that Africa receives roughly $50 billion in aid annually from foreign governments, and perhaps $13 billion more from private philanthropic institutions, according to Penta's estimate. Never...
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Jimi, Please read this. It will make you appreciate God and His will to keep us alive and to appreciate this ferocious (in a good way) woman for her willingness to share her road to death. May God...
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Disappointment in Successors to Nelson Mandela,...
December 6, 2013Disappointment in Successors to Nelson Mandela, a Revered Father of a NationBy LYDIA POLGREENMVEZO, South Africa — Adam Bhasikile's day begins at dawn, always in the same way. Flanked...
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hi moses well, i agree completely. but why limit it to land. land, in south africa, is the least of the sources of wealth. how about the billions of dollars of gold and diamonds and i don't know what...
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Compatriot Okey Iheduru:With due respect, you seem always to write as if you have ants in your pants - as if you are angry at the whole of the Nigerian academy. If you want to be an agent of change,...
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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Mandela Taught a Continent to Forgive
Dear John,I address you as John because, in your post, you were only 5 in 1964, when I was already a college teacher. So, if I claim to be an elder, I am not arrogant, or belittling you. Far from it!...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - RIP: Nelson Mandela by the National Review Online
NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com PRINTDecember 6, 2013 11:00 AMNelson Mandela, R.I.P.By The Editors Among world leaders, Nelson Mandela had unmatched moral authority. When...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - A Tribute to President Madiba Nelson Mandela and...
A Simple Tribute to President Madiba Nelson Mandela and a Wake-upCall for African LeadersIt is particularly gratifying to read the numerous and powerful encomiums"poured" on the contributions to Africa...
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Its like some people are no more objective with their views. I wonder what they are really out to achieve. The submitted piece by Prof Aluko had Yoruba language content and its corresponding English...
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Mandela Taught a Continent to Forgive
Chidi,What would have been the alternative to "forgiveness"?Even before Mr. Mandela was set free from Robben Island, in anticipation of payback-time and the bloodbath that they were certain would...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - President Mahama to Speak at Bard College on...
Toyin FalolaDepartment of HistoryThe University of Texas at Austin104 Inner Campus DriveAustin, TX 78712-0220USA512 475 7224512 475 7222 (fax)http://www.toyinfalola.com...
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - The People's Sanctions
The People's Sanctions Saturday, 07 December 2013 09:19 By Francis Njubi Nesbitt, Foreign Policy in Focus | Op-Ed Anti-Apartheid protest in South Africa. (Photo: Paul Weinberg / Wikimedia)How Nelson...
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - LA Times: Review: 'The Great Beauty' intoxicates...
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-great-beauty-20131122,0,3340038.story#axzz2mrmBcC5r"The Great Beauty" and Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" are inevitable, especially...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - Press Release: Okwui Enwezor's Appointment as...
Thursday, December 5, 2013PRESS RELEASE Okwui Enwezor Appointed Director of the 56th International Exhibition of the Venice BiennaleIt is with great pleasure that we share with you the news of the...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - Anxious and conflicted: Afrikaners await a...
And the rainbow nation? "There's still a division between the races in this country. You go to any function and see the people are split. I have some black friends, but 99% of my friends are white...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - Mandela’s Socialist Failure - NYTimes.com
"In the last two decades of his life, Nelson Mandela was celebrated as a model of how to liberate a country from the colonial yoke without succumbing to the temptation of dictatorial power and...
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i wonder if this is true of everyone else's experience. i see functions, get-togethers, events, all the time in which the racial divide is not like this, where many many different people from...
View ArticleRe: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: The Dame queries Prof Aluko for not...
Must one provide translation whenever one writes one's native language here or in any other place? I, personally do not think so. I will write my native language wherever and whenever I feel like doing...
View ArticleUSA Africa Dialogue Series - The Lion That Mewed Is Dead (Poem)
By Chidi Anthony Opara The flame of the flaming spearExtinguished by the bearer,The warrior vanquished himself.VictoryOn a platter served to the victors.The lionLike the house catMewedAt the feet of...
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i read the piece--well, half, and stopped. didn't really want to finish the whites' carping.here's the difference between here and there. those are the voices of a white minority who enjoyed the...
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