Category: Africa

01 March 2010       When Nelson Mandela walked to freedom 20 years ago, he re-entered a society seemingly irreversibly split by the evil of apartheid. An explosion of violence,...

F. W. de Klerk 02 February 2010   One of the questions I am invariably asked in international interviews is whether a Damascene conversion led me to initiate the changes...

John Norris Imagine if we had enjoyed the luxury of knowing, two years before it happened, that Yugoslavia would disintegrate in 1991. Or just think if U.S. diplomats had been...

Jeffrey Gettleman   when you land at Mogadishu’s international airport, the first form you fill out asks for name, address, and caliber of weapon. Believe it or not, this disaster...