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Africa's colonial history has left its rulers shy of external scrutiny, so an international gathering of political and business leaders in Cape Town from June 4-6 seemed to promise little more than platitudes. The annual meetings of the World Economic Forum for Africa have often conveyed the impression that Africa's only problem is its image. Rebrand the continent as a success, the message goes, and all will be well. But this year the rising cost of food, Africa's energy deficiency and its projected failure to meet the Millennium Development Goals forced a deeper conclusion: Africa...
...standing in the back room of the Hillary Clinton for President headquarters in Dubuque, Iowa with some volunteers and a field organizer, Elliot, who had been canvassing neighborhoods and knocking on doors for months. The Iowa caucuses were days away, and I had flown in with Institute of Politics Forum Director Bill White to help out with the final push...
...have been raining outside the tent at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Forum, but Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf left the audience with a sunny message: If this Kennedy School graduate can change the world...
...have voice in their own domain. But as literary critic and social theorist Gayatri Spivak writes in her article, “Can the Subaltern Speak?”(1988), post-colonial initiatives such as these may in fact be complicit in the task of imperialism. In creating a forum outside of the discipline of history that forces non-Western histories into anthropological molds, the ideal of collective speech may in fact silence the individual voices of the formerly colonized and those without access to imperial resources or the imperial language. Even efforts such as the postcolonial field of study...
...pooling of each member state’s sovereignty has enabled the setting up of institutions which have served the needs of the Union well. This year the European Parliament celebrates its fiftieth Anniversary. It currently has 785 members representing almost 500 million citizens. It is in this forum that the citizens of Europe directly express their views and perspectives on issues directly affecting them. Over the years the European Institutions have evolved to meet the needs of Enlargement...