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By David John | African Awakening
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There are conferences that pass through the world like hotel air-conditioning: expensive, cold and quickly forgotten. Then there are conferences that carry the weight of centuries.
The reparations conference taking place in Accra, Ghana, belongs to the second category.
Officially, it...
There are political conferences that merely fill halls, pass resolutions and produce photographs for the evening news. Then there are political conferences that reveal the direction in which a country is moving.
The first congress of PASTEF-Les Patriotes, held in...
When the World Cup Stops Being Global
The FIFA World Cup calls itself the world’s tournament. It is marketed as football’s grand parliament of nations, a month when borders are supposed to soften, flags are supposed to meet, and the...
The image is simple, almost ordinary.
A plane lands at Addis Ababa Bole International Airport. Doors open. Protocol begins. Handshakes are exchanged. Cameras move closer. Officials smile with the practiced discipline of diplomacy.
But sometimes history does not arrive shouting. Sometimes...
There are moments when a country’s wound becomes so deep that it forgets where the enemy is.
A construction site in South Africa’s North West province. Men in work clothes. Contractors. Local officials. Activists. A confrontation over jobs. But this...
There are moments in global politics when power is not hidden in speeches, communiqués, press conferences, or diplomatic smiles. It is sitting quietly at the table.
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The first is the U.S.-China...
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