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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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May 14, 2012
Sub-Saharan Africa
South Africa’s Angst over De Klerk’s Apartheid Comments
Former South African president F.W. de Klerk’s May 10 CNN interview, in which he comments, inter alia, on apartheid and his relations with Nelson Mandela, has generated widespread outrage. De Klerk’s…
February 21, 2006
Emerging Markets
Frederick Kempe of the Wall Street Journal gets an awful lot of things wrong
As, I suspect, does Joseph Quinlan of the Bank of America- the source of much of Kempe's analysis. Kempe's core argument: consumers in emerging markets are driving global demand. His eviden…
February 27, 2020
South Africa
History's Verdict Thirty Years After South Africa's Mandela Freed
Thirty years after State President F.W. de Klerk ordered his release from Cape Town’s Victor Vorster Prison, Nelson Mandela’s reputation as a genuine hero of the twentieth century holds up. With F.W. de Klerk and others, Mandela led the successful transition with the ANC from apartheid to non-racial democracy, forestalling the race war that many thought was inevitable.
December 29, 2021
2021 in Review
Ten World Figures Who Died in 2021
Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.
October 9, 2019
Sub-Saharan Africa
The Origins of African States, and Their Names
An article on the origins of the names of African countries was recently published in Quartz. It includes a map of the continent in 1885, shortly after the Berlin Conference. Portuguese and Arabic traders and explorers are the origins of some names, European mispronunciation of tribal names are the origins of others.
