San Benito, Texas CNN — Raul Rodriguez says he’ll never forget the moment he realized his life was built on a lie. He was so shaken that he felt the blood rushing to his feet. In a matter of seconds, a family secret had shattered the way he saw the world and his place in it. “That …
Best of luck.Photographer: Kola Sulaimon/AFP/Getty Images Africa’s largest economy needs urgent reforms to stabilize the country’s fiscal situation and attract investment. Some two weeks after ruling-party candidate Bola Tinubu claimed victory in Nigeria’s presidential elections, controversy is still swirling around the vote, delaying follow-up elections for state governors. But even if President-elect Tinubu takes office …
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In the years I worked for him, Jimmy Carter was always the same: disciplined, funny, enormously intelligent, and deeply spiritual. David Hume Kennerly / Getty Life is unfair, as a Democratic president once put it. That was John F. Kennedy, at a press conferenceearly in his term. Jimmy Carter did not go through as extreme a …
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Governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle THE Zamfara State Government’s recent order that all non-governmental organisations should leave the state is heavy handed and alarming. It smacks of dictatorship and suggests a descent into tyranny in a country claiming to be a democracy. Hiding under a veneer of legalism, the Governor Bello Matawalle-led state government …
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Senegalese historian and anthropologist Cheikh Anta Diop ©Jeune Afrique montage, all rights reserved Born almost a century ago on 29 December 1923, in Thieytou, Senegal, the researcher went to Paris to study and provoked a scandal in academic circles by publishing, in 1954, Nations nègres et culture (Negro Nations and Culture), the doctoral thesis for which he …
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