Against All Odds: How 'Crazy' Kim Jong Il Outfoxed the World
Underestimated since he took power in 1994, the North Korean leader is shrewder, smarter, and saner than the popular caricatures give him credit for… More »
Howard W. French is the author of A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa and as a fellow for the Open Society Foundations, a forthcoming book on China's relationship with Africa. He teaches at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and is a former senior writer and foreign correspondent for the New York Times. More
Underestimated since he took power in 1994, the North Korean leader is shrewder, smarter, and saner than the popular caricatures give him credit for… More »
Could last week's flagrantly stolen election finally lead the world's leaders to insist on more and better from the Congo, and from their own engagement with it?… More »
At 82, the famed biologist E. O. Wilson arrived in Mozambique last summer with a modest agenda—save a ravaged park; identify its many undiscovered species; create a virtual textbook that will revolutionize the teaching of biology. Wilson’s newest theory is more ambitious still. It could transform our understanding of human nature—and provide hope for our stewardship of the planet.… More »
Zambians have voted out president seen as closely aligned with China, which has sent thousands of workers and managers here and to other Sub-Saharan countries… More »
The Chinese government is taking the possibility of pro-democracy protests seriously--and that's what activists want… More »
The Libyan leader's dark legacy already includes some of the continent's worst regimes and conflicts… More »
China will have an unusually difficult time spinning news of Egypt's democratic revolution as an unthreatening narrative… More »
While China has already heavily invested in African infrastructure, there are still opportunities for the U.S. to get involved… More »
To understand today's problems, we take a look back at the early history of independence-era African politics… More »
For my first post as an Atlantic correspondent I am returning to the country, Ivory Coast, where I first committed journalism, at the start of the 1980s.Why pick such an obscure topic, an African country that is neither hugely oil rich, nor home to a besieged white minority, nor the imagined base of Islamic terrorists?Yes, Ivory Coast has been in the news steadily in recent weeks, the scene of a dangerous showdown between a leader who was defeated in a democratic…… More »
All across Africa, new tracks are being laid, highways built,ports deepened, commercial contracts signed—all on an unprecedented scale, and led by China, whose appetite for commodities seems insatiable. Do China’s grand designs promise the transformation,at last, of a star-crossed continent? Or merely its exploitation? The author travels deep into the heart of Africa, searching for answers.… More »
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The Civil War
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