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of authenticity In several areas of the artists’ colony, the woods were especially thick and populated with deer, snakes and Lyme Disease-spreading ticks. However, th...

A question for the Gas Station Guy The gas station guy who filled my tank this afternoon in a southern New Jersey town appeared very excited and so full of smile when I rolled down my w...

Haute mess vs. hot mess in the world of fashion Vogue Italia may be establishing itself as a gratuitous voyeuristic publication whose readers can enjoy that which they fear by vicariously living the...

The internet in the 21st century – Part 2 All over the world, many imagined the internet would be the most significant and consequential invention of the 20th century. But barely over one deca...

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Premium badgeSouth Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe: Blackouts to total darkness? To observers, it’s incomprehensible that countries with active perennial waterways – via Zambezi River – teeter on the verge of energy poverty.
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Premium badgeMorocco: The monarchy and the mystery of Moulay El Hassan What do we know about the Crown Prince, who turned 20 on 8 May? Apart from a few general facts about his education at the Royal College and  at the UM...
© A proposed view of the entrance to the University of Bondoukou, Côte d’Ivoire.

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Premium badgeCôte d’Ivoire: How one country is making strides to prevent medical brain drain If there is one area in which African states still have a lot of work to do after 60 years of independence, it is health care, where they lag far behi...

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© File photo of pylons that carry electricity from a coal fired power station in Hwange, Zimbabwe. (REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo)

unenlightened

Premium badgeSouth Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe: Blackouts to total darkness? To observers, it’s incomprehensible that countries with active perennial waterways – via Zambezi River – teeter on the verge of energy poverty.
© Moulay El Hassan (photo: @M_RoyalFamily)

Alawite legacy

Premium badgeMorocco: The monarchy and the mystery of Moulay El Hassan What do we know about the Crown Prince, who turned 20 on 8 May? Apart from a few general facts about his education at the Royal College and  at the UM...
© A proposed view of the entrance to the University of Bondoukou, Côte d’Ivoire.

Medical mambo

Premium badgeCôte d’Ivoire: How one country is making strides to prevent medical brain drain If there is one area in which African states still have a lot of work to do after 60 years of independence, it is health care, where they lag far behi...

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Economics: selling the truth, or telling the truth? The fundamental market theory of equilibrium, in economics, can be compared to notions of justice conceived in other disciplines, such as electoral de...

Homosexuality: The Gambia’s smoke and mirrors When Europeans went to Berlin with their scissors in 1884 to cut up the map of Africa, they played a sick joke which is still felt today.

The Internet in the 21st Century – Part 1 All over the world, many imagined the internet would be the most significant and consequential invention of the 20th century. But barely over one deca...

Marvel’s Avengers: Lessons for Ghanaian politics The summer blockbuster Marvel’s Avengers opened to record numbers in the United States and around the world. With an opening gross in excess of 200 mi...

Mali’s profitable fashion statement Amidst harsh economic conditions, Malian women are improving their lives by producing hand-dyed local fabric called bazin that has brought them fame a...

Euro-African divorce Should Africa and Europe be heading for the divorce courts? This bad marriage first consummated over half a millennium ago now looks beyond redemption...