G. Pascal Zachary
G. Pascal Zachary is the author of Married to Africa: a Love Story.
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2009-07-02
| On July 10, one very important descendant of black Africa will make a triumphant return to the motherland. But Barack Obama’s visit to Ghana, while heavy on symbolism, reveals the limits of his power: burdened by economic problems in America and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, he can’t act boldly in Africa or make big promises.... read |
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2009-05-19
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While the new Obama administration is commanding global attention, America’s future may be written – as so many times before – in and by its largest state. Once the lodestar for American optimism and achievement, California now illustrates the difficulties confronting the United States – and how much more can still go wrong domestically.... read |
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2009-04-24
| The anxiety over Jacob Zuma’s election as president of South Africa obscures a significant milestone: for the first time in decades, a sub-Saharan nation has at its helm a champion of ordinary people.... read |
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2009-03-26
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In sub-Saharan Africa, there are few hints of the global financial crisis that is consuming the capitalist world. The region’s historical marginalization within the international financial system – so costly in times of global plenty – is proving to be an unexpected benefit when the wealthiest of the world are sick unto death.... read |
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2008-08-27
| For too long, African governments have listened to the siren song of free trade – and have suffered from too much openness, not too little. But, with the US and the European Union unwilling to slash their farm subsidies, Uganda has re-imposed stiff duties on imported rice – an experiment that deserves wider attention and that could help other agricultural producers.... read |
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2007-12-20
| Americans do-gooders like Nicholas Negroponte, with his $100 laptop, have identified the right problem: Africa is way behind technologically and rapid leap-frogging is possible. But Chinese and Indian technologies are increasingly having a greater impact in Africa than those designed in American and Europe.... read |
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2006-11-03
| Madonna usually only makes headlines in the world’s tabloids. But her adoption of a boy from Malawi whose mother had died and whose farmer father could not feed him has filled opinion pages in serious papers everywhere. Her decision has raised the profile of Malawi, home to recurrent food shortages and seasonal famines.... read |
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2006-04-05
| Souley Madi is one of the most productive cotton growers in the Badjengo Cameroon, an area where the lush forests of central Africa give way to the semi-arid Sahel. Thanks to a combination of intense heat and periodic Sahelian rains, Madi consistently produces clean, high-quality cotton on the gently sloping hills that surround his walled compound.... read |
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2004-06-14
| In the past 40 years, advanced computers and communications have transformed one part of the world after another - first, the US and Europe, then Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, and most recently, India, China, and Eastern Europe. Is Africa next?... read |
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Coming Out in Africa
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The lead story in a recent issue of the Daily Graphic, Ghana's most influential newspaper, was designed to shock: "Four Gay Men Jailed." Homosexual acts are crimes in Ghana - and across much of sub-Saharan Africa.... read
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2004-03-23
| The lead story in a recent issue of the Daily Graphic, Ghana's most influential newspaper, was designed to shock: "Four Gay Men Jailed." Homosexual acts are crimes in Ghana - and across much of sub-Saharan Africa.... read |
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2004-06-14
| In the past 40 years, advanced computers and communications have transformed one part of the world after another - first, the US and Europe, then Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, and most recently, India, China, and Eastern Europe. Is Africa next?... read |
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2006-04-05
| Souley Madi is one of the most productive cotton growers in the Badjengo Cameroon, an area where the lush forests of central Africa give way to the semi-arid Sahel. Thanks to a combination of intense heat and periodic Sahelian rains, Madi consistently produces clean, high-quality cotton on the gently sloping hills that surround his walled compound.... read |
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2007-12-20
| Americans do-gooders like Nicholas Negroponte, with his $100 laptop, have identified the right problem: Africa is way behind technologically and rapid leap-frogging is possible. But Chinese and Indian technologies are increasingly having a greater impact in Africa than those designed in American and Europe.... read |
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2008-08-27
| For too long, African governments have listened to the siren song of free trade – and have suffered from too much openness, not too little. But, with the US and the European Union unwilling to slash their farm subsidies, Uganda has re-imposed stiff duties on imported rice – an experiment that deserves wider attention and that could help other agricultural producers.... read |
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2006-11-03
| Madonna usually only makes headlines in the world’s tabloids. But her adoption of a boy from Malawi whose mother had died and whose farmer father could not feed him has filled opinion pages in serious papers everywhere. Her decision has raised the profile of Malawi, home to recurrent food shortages and seasonal famines.... read |
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2009-03-26
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In sub-Saharan Africa, there are few hints of the global financial crisis that is consuming the capitalist world. The region’s historical marginalization within the international financial system – so costly in times of global plenty – is proving to be an unexpected benefit when the wealthiest of the world are sick unto death.... read |
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2009-07-02
| On July 10, one very important descendant of black Africa will make a triumphant return to the motherland. But Barack Obama’s visit to Ghana, while heavy on symbolism, reveals the limits of his power: burdened by economic problems in America and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, he can’t act boldly in Africa or make big promises.... read |
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2009-04-24
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The anxiety over Jacob Zuma’s election as president of South Africa obscures a significant milestone: for the first time in decades, a sub-Saharan nation has at its helm a champion of ordinary people.... read |
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California Dying
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G. Pascal Zachary
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While the new Obama administration is commanding global attention, America’s future may be written – as so many times before – in and by its largest state. Once the lodestar for American optimism and achievement, California now illustrates the difficulties confronting the United States – and how much more can still go wrong domestically.... read
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