Monthly Archives: April 2011
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Nigeria election blog II – Dowden in Africa
I am woken by a frantic voice blaring from a coarse loudspeaker, demanding, pleading, insisting. The voice rises to a hysterical shriek, then breaks into slow ... -
The African Renaissance and the long Arab spring
The Egyptian "youth revolution" has been compared to innumerable historical instances ranging from France's 1789, to Russia's 1991, Berlin's 1989, via Iran's 1979 and the more ...
