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Africa: if I were not African

Saturday, December 2nd, 2006 @ 15:25 UTC

by Ndesanjo Macha

Countries:: Lesotho, Malawi
Topics:: Development, Governance, Politics

In a post titled, [They] don’t say “Malawi”; they just say “Africa.”, Sotho writes, “If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.”

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