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April 1, 2011

Sub-Saharan Africa
Princeton N. Lyman Appointed to Sudan Special Envoy

UN and U.S. Special Envoy Officials pose with election materials that include voter registration kits, manuals and cards of referendum materials that were handed over in Khartoum October 30, 2010. (M…

Princeton N. Lyman Appointed to Sudan Special Envoy
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

November 16, 2011

Sub-Saharan Africa
Chinua Achebe Refuses National Honor

Nigerian author Chinua Achebe gestures during a news conference held during Frankfurt bookfair October 12, 2002. (Ralph Orlowski/Courtesy Reuters) Today, November 16, is acclaimed Nigerian author Ch…

Chinua Achebe Refuses National Honor
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

February 24, 2011

Sub-Saharan Africa
Africa Program Update

This is hopefully the beginning of semi-regular informal updates of what’s going on with the Ralph Bunche Chair here at the Council on Foreign Relations Africa program. We recently hired a new in…

Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

April 19, 2011

United States
TWE Remembers: The Battle of Lexington and Concord

On April 19, 1775, the first shots of the American Revolution were fired at Lexington and Concord. Ralph Waldo Emerson captured the significance of that day in a poem he wrote for the July 4, 1837 ce…

Daniel Chester French’s Minuteman Statue in Concord, MA. (Detroit Publishing Company/courtesy the Library of Congress)
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

August 6, 2015

Fossil Fuels
Guest Post: Cleaning Up the Mess at the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation

This was originally posted by my colleague John Campbell on his Africa in Transition blog. John was formerly U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria and is currently the Ralph Bunche senior fellow at the Council …

Nigeria blog photo
Blog Post by Michael Levi Energy, Security, and Climate