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...1980s sought to bring the issue closer to home. Beginning with the class of 1983, graduating seniors created an alternative fund to the traditional senior gift called the Endowment for Divestiture in an effort to pressure the University to divest its endowment funds from companies doing business in South Africa??a call that echoed the United Nation’s similar recommendation...
...Zimbabwe and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, led by Morgan Tsvangirai. President Mugabe, who was certified the winner of a questionably conducted election last fall, has presided over one of the greatest economic collapses in history, turning Zimbabwe—formerly a prosperous and stable region of Africa??into a poster child for economic mismanagement. We wished Prime Minister Tsvangirai the best of luck in helping to restore some semblance of peace and prosperity to that troubled country.In March, the International Criminal Court made history by issuing an arrest warrant for Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the President...
...session on “Sustainable Food,” timely in 2008 because a sudden increase in international food prices had pushed 100 million more people around the world into hunger, on top of the 850 million others–mostly in rural South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa??who were already suffering from chronic malnutrition before prices went up. Yet none of the invited speakers at Harvard’s session on food had much interest in this larger problem, or any academic standing to address it. One was a celebrity restaurant owner from San Francisco...
These organic, local, and slow African food systems are also bad for the natural environment. Attempting to grow more food to keep pace with an increasing population, Africa??s farmers have shortened their fallow times, which exhausts soil nutrients. They also expand cropping and grazing onto more erodible lands, cutting more trees and destroying more wildlife habitat. Roughly 70 percent of all deforestation in Africa comes from this expansion of low-yield farming. It would be better if these farmers increased crop yields on land already cleared by applying some nitrogen fertilizer, but that would violate the mystical...
...shackled to their work. Rubber boots—“gumboots”—formed part of their uniform. Decades distant, and half a world away, Harvard’s Gumboots Dance Troupe aims to pay tribute to this particular period of struggle in South Africa??s history. Many former members of the group joined because of an affinity to the cultures of southern Africa, but the group has since maintained its creed while diversifying its participation, now attracting members from many different backgrounds.A MISSIONShazrene S. Mohamed ’04, originally from Zimbabwe, says...