Posts Tagged ‘ZA’
outrages
sean jacobs’ excellent guest column on a special edition of vanity fair.topic: africa.
apparently bono’s ridiculously cliched quote about flies buzzing about the impoverished resonates with the rich crowd that reads vanity fair.
but most of all i felt utterly outraged at the disturbing disparity between the focus of wealthy celebrities (or just the wealthy) — poverty — and by contrast the unsexy focus of africa’s leaders — economic growth.
Zimbabwe Election Day
The world holds its breath as Zimbabwe’s presidential and parliamentary election day approaches.
March 29 will pit 83-year-old President Robert Mugabe, in power since 1980 and leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), against leaders of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) – and possibly others.
No one wants to see the economically-hobbling Zimbabwe follow in the footsteps of Kenya – a country that only a couple months ago stood as one of the most stable in Africa. Read the rest of this entry »
