December 2011
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10 Positive Africa Stories of 2011
At the New Yorker, Alexis Okeowo’s got a list:
1. Africa is experiencing an economic boom.
2. South Sudan gained its independence.
3. Ugandans staged Walk to Work protests
4. Two Liberian women won the Nobel Peace Prize.
5. Cell phones continue to change how Africans live.
6. South African democracy took a turn for the interesting.
7. African innovation was celebrated for a third year...
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Lions in Waiting
Reread The Economist’s “Year in 2011” predictions. They’re laughably bad. Or, I should say, irrelevant. The august magazine missed the biggest stories of this most interesting year: the Arab Spring, the ongoing Eurozone fiasco, and the global anti-inequality movement known as Occupy Wall Street. They were able to accurately predict that there would be political gridlock in...