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Africa Rising: The Opportunities and Challenges
by Paul Cohen | June 26, 2013
With President Obama heading to South Africa, Senegal and Tanzania this week, Western media attention is turning once again to Africa. At last month’s World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town, I had the chance to hear more about many of the biggest issues facing the continent. As I reported last year, the opportunities […]
Impressions from Addis Ababa (Africa): Perceptions, Realities, Hopes, Fears
by Paul Cohen | June 13, 2012
A colleague who immigrated to the U.S. when she was 12 recently told me, “When I first came to America and began learning English, I thought ‘Ethiopia’ was a type of disease.” And why not? If you came of age in the 80s or 90s, Western perceptions of Ethiopia were synonymous with drought, famine and […]
