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Africa: Africa-India Summit

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Marian writes about Africa-India Summit: “April 8-9 mark the first-ever India-Africa Forum Summit. Might the Summit include any component addressing human trafficking and undocumented (i.e., illegal) immigration…

India-Africa Summit in Delhi: Hard questions?

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April 8-9 mark the first-ever India-Africa Forum Summit. Might the Summit include any component addressing human trafficking and undocumented (i.e., illegal) immigration coming from the Asian subcontinent into East and…

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Africa “Outside” History? President Sarkozy’s infamous speech in Dakar, July 2007

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Since his accession to the French presidency, I seem to have lost track of the times when to hear Nicolas Sarkozy speak is to re-affirm that truth indeed is stranger than fiction. It’s likely that for most of his…

Washington's Slavery Emancipation, April 1862

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Spring in Washington means more than cherry blossoms. Throughout April, Washington, DC — or at least some of us — will recognise the 146th anniversary of the abolition of Black enslavement in the District of Columbia…

March Madness? Bombing, from Belgrade to Baghdad

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It's just days after the "Ides of March" - the date when the emperor Giulio Cesare was assassinated in Rome. In English we call him Julius Caesar. In English we also have a saying about March, that it…

Africa: Kenyan truce, and Chinese and Indian colonialism

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Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga and putatively re-elected second-term president Mwai Kibaki finally reached an accomodation for the country's political divide and the death and violence and death it wrought. I…