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some good news from Guinea
Abubakar Diakite, the guy who almost assassinated Guinean dictator Moussa Camara, should be handsomely rewarded. Well, unless he was actually responsible for the massacre of more than 150...
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quick hits
What disasters reveal. Excellent read. From disasters we get to know more about the societies that experience them. Perhaps the glaring international example of this was the difference in destruction...
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Quick Hits
Haiti wants to join the African Union Partisan stats: Of red-state moochers and blue state makers Romney’s elusive tax plan (funny) Zuma’s failed presidency and South Africa’s labor unrest Mo Ibrahim...
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State-building is not a walk in the park
“Mauritius’s state building success came on the backs of relentlessly exploited slaves and indentured labourers. Sugar planters compelled the government to ignore mistreatment on sugar estates,...
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On the Haitian Revolution
This is from Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Silencing the Past: Power and Production of History: The Haitian revolution therefore entered history with the peculiar characteristic of being unthinkable even as...
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