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	<title>Africa Works</title>
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	<description>what works in the sub-Saharan, and what doesn&#039;t, by G. Pascal Zachary</description>
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		<title>What does it take to be an African hero?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Kato, murdered a year ago for his outspoken advocacy of gay rights in Uganda, reaped the whirlwind for his heroism. Now the subject of a new documentary to premiere next week in Berlin, Kato&#8217;s life (and death) stands as a continuing rebuke to the proponets of discrimination against homosexual in Uganda and other African [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://africaworksgpz.com/2012/02/05/what-does-it-take-to-be-an-african-hero/</link>
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		<title>Manifesto for a new image of Africa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The importance of re-inventing the image of Africa, in American eyes, has long animated my writing about the people and the region. Elsewhere, I&#8217;ve looked in detail at the meta-narratives, or paradigms, that continue distort clear thinking about African affairs -- and that cause otherwise intelligent people to ignore or dissemble about evidence of positive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://africaworksgpz.com/2012/01/28/manifesto-for-a-new-media-image-of-africa/</link>
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		<title>Nigeria and the case for unmaking the British-made world</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Does Nigeria belong in the category of countries that were constructed during the twilight of British colonial rule and have forever after spawned endless crises, partly because the original British design was flawed, perhaps fatally? I look at the origins of the Nigerian nation-state in a new piece for Atlantic.com. What I don&#8217;t share with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://africaworksgpz.com/2012/01/25/nigeria-and-the-case-for-unmaking-the-british-made-world/</link>
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		<title>Winter in Nigeria</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My wife Chizo, from Port Harcourt Nigeria, went to Moneygram this morning. She sent money to her brother, a front-line oil worker, who is the mainstay of the domestic economy of her extended family. Because of the strikes in Nigeria, her brother isn&#8217;t working &#8212; and isn&#8217;t earning. He does have savings, but no ATM [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://africaworksgpz.com/2012/01/17/winter-in-nigeria/</link>
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		<title>Praise the ANC, if faintly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 100th anniversary of the founding of the African National Congress &#8211; the ruling party in South Africa &#8212; brought forth earlier this month, in British and America media, an onslaught of negative, pessimistic and downright damning portrayals of a political party that carries the mantle of Nelson Mandela and post-apartheid reconciliation. South Africa may [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://africaworksgpz.com/2012/01/15/praise-for-the-anc-if-faintly/</link>
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		<title>In African politics, smaller is more beautiful</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seccession, or making African countries, smaller and more responsive to their polities, was perhaps the biggest story of 2011 in a region where the top-down, unitary nation-state remains the default option. My own preferences &#8212; for more nations in Africa, smaller nations, more geographically coherent nations, and even ethnically-coherent nations &#8212; are well known. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://africaworksgpz.com/2012/01/04/in-african-politics-smaller-is-beautiful/</link>
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		<title>Zambia Days: Michael Sata&#8217;s unusual populist presidency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Zambia&#8217;s new president, Michael Sata, continues to set a new course for leadership among high elected officials in Africa. Last month he declared he would avoid foreign trips because he did not want to waste the country&#8217;s resources on extravagances when the funds could be better used to assist poor Zambians. Now the Africa Works [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://africaworksgpz.com/2011/12/20/zambia-days-michael-sata-and-his-unusual-populist-presidency/</link>
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		<title>Great Green Wall for Africa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The idea is spreading that sub-Saharan Africans can take positive steps to reduce the adverse effects of climate change. They are not, in short, doomed, and through their own labors can improve their livelihoods while at the same time making prudent steps to adapt to global warming. That&#8217;s the sub-text of a valuable article by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://africaworksgpz.com/2011/12/18/great-green-wall-for-africa/</link>
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		<title>the politics of African fashion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had my own tailor for some years in Accra, Ghana. His bright-colored shop is located behind the main drag in the trendy Osu neighgborhood, on Kuku Hill, his front door facing onto the Independence Square and the ocean. Many a later afternoon, I talked fashion with him and enjoyed the sea breeze. My tailor, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://africaworksgpz.com/2011/12/11/the-politics-of-african-fashion/</link>
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		<title>Congolese election reminder of African political pathologies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Economist this week has a rousing article on the robust economic growth in much of sub-Saharan Africa. Impressive. And the attention is long overdue. I&#8217;ve harped for years on the neglected story of the expansion in Africa&#8217;s middle-class and the relative prosperity of cities in the region and even ordinary farmers. The new African [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://africaworksgpz.com/2011/12/09/congolese-election-grim-reminder-of-africas-living-legacies/</link>
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