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And Africa, Too
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Over the next two days, African leaders will convene in Ethiopia and choose a new head of the African Union. Incredibly, that job may go to Sudan’s blood-drenched president, Omar al-Bashir, architect of the genocide in Darfur.
The outcome is still uncertain, with Sudan campaigning furiously for the job, but it’s mind-boggling that African countries would even consider selecting as their leader a man who has systematically dispatched militias that pick out babies on the basis of tribe and skin color and throw them into bonfires.
-- Nicholas D. Kristof for The New York Times
This would seem to suggest how intractable are the problems in Africa for the time being. For all the concerns that some may feel about Western neo-colonialism, and besides the ugly history of earlier, more direct forms of colonialism, it is also true that a lot of their problems rest in their own hands.
It is amazing how some can speak of progress when madness reigns throughout the world. It still looks like a Hobbesian world to me.
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Over the next two days, African leaders will convene in Ethiopia and choose a new head of the African Union. Incredibly, that job may go to Sudan’s blood-drenched president, Omar al-Bashir, architect of the genocide in Darfur.
The outcome is still uncertain, with Sudan campaigning furiously for the job, but it’s mind-boggling that African countries would even consider selecting as their leader a man who has systematically dispatched militias that pick out babies on the basis of tribe and skin color and throw them into bonfires.
-- Nicholas D. Kristof for The New York Times
This would seem to suggest how intractable are the problems in Africa for the time being. For all the concerns that some may feel about Western neo-colonialism, and besides the ugly history of earlier, more direct forms of colonialism, it is also true that a lot of their problems rest in their own hands.
It is amazing how some can speak of progress when madness reigns throughout the world. It still looks like a Hobbesian world to me.