Tag: africa
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Prosperity, Then Peace
Tracy O (ASA) I recently wrote about how globalization could make the world a much safer place. The logic is essentially this: countries that have significant business interactions are much less likely to go to war. A China that relies on exports to the West probably won’t start a war with anyone, and a West […]
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‘Stop Trying to “Save” Africa’
On Sunday, the Washington Post ran this column by American-Nigerian author Uzodinma Iweala. In it, he argues that Africa cannot be “saved” by Western countries, and that such rhetoric can be both offensive and demeaning. This piece is very similar in content to this post, but I felt this was more concise and thorough, and […]
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Africa, Development, and Bono
Some headlines scream so loud something so shocking that you can’t ignore them. “Africans to Bono: ‘For God’s Sake Please Stop‘” from The American is just such a headline. I’ll admit that at first I thought ‘this must be a joke.’ But upon closer examination, it’s a reasonable argument made rather convincingly by it’s purveyors […]