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...respondents to a recent BBC poll said they were proud to be African. Ethiopia itself has changed. It's more democratic, it's attracting investment and it's better prepared to face the periodic droughts that suck it dry. Sure, Africa has plenty of troubles: war, droughts, poverty and ethnic clashes, but Do They Know It's Christmas? doesn't address any of the causes of these problems. There's no mention that most of the continent's famines are caused by strongmen who use food as a weapon against their enemies, just as dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam...
...Greater Tragedy What is happening in Sudan is ethnic cleansing, pure and simple [Oct. 4]. The government-backed Janjaweed Arab militia is committing genocide against non-Arab Muslims. Is the world waiting for Darfur to degenerate into another Bosnia or Rwanda? I am surprised by the evasive tactics of the Bush Administration and its European counterparts. After its blunders in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. does not want to be seen as antagonizing another Muslim state, and the European Union is foot dragging, probably out of fear of reprisal attacks by Islamist militants. The defenseless people of Darfur need...
...draft a constitution that will set permanent rules for Iraq's democratic system and usher in another round of voting by the end of 2005. The constitution must be put to a referendum by October. If it is rejected--and divvying up powers and rights among Iraq's jostling ethnic and religious factions will be extremely tricky--the whole process will start over again...
...culturally rich northwestern port city, Taha came of age displaced from his Algerian roots but without being accepted by French society either. In 1980, after a series of drudge jobs, including a stint in a heater factory, Taha hooked up with a quartet - three of whom were fellow ethnic Arabs - in a Lyons suburb and formed Carte de Séjour (Green Card). Though the band's gritty garage sound and defiant Arabic lyrics about racism, immigration and social injustice won it a healthy club following, French radio stations shunned the group. "I knew DJs who were told by bosses...
Although he received a Western education and writes in English, Soyinka was exposed to the rituals and beliefs of the Yoruba people by his paternal grandfather and his writings are firmly anchored in his ethnic heritage...