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A long-time human rights worker, who has written reports for Human Rights Watch, focusing primarily on Africa, takes to the Boston Review to revisit his own sins, mistakes, and regrets, ultimately questioning the role of the human rights worker entirely. On-the-ground humanitarians learned tough lessons...
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An excellent essay and photo gallery of the African children producing your chocolate. The reality is that the chocolate companies won't operate their own farms and while they have thrown some money at the problem of child labor, they still haven't done nearly enough to...

African Influences

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On February 18, 2016

This very interesting profile of the culinary scholar Michael Twitty reinforces one key point for any reader--that African influences on the United States are basically still ignored. African-American influences on.

Rhodesia 1976

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On June 19, 2015

A friend of mine pointed me toward this 1976 Australian TV documentary about the nation of Rhodesia in its last years of trying to maintain its white nationalist government. Very.

Evil Personified

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In General
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On December 18, 2013
It's always useful to remember the true depraved evil of King Leopold II and the horrors of Belgian rule over the Congo, a legacy that goes far to define the lives of the people of central Africa today.
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