Author Archives: Byron Tarr

April 21, 2009

Liberia Clings to Failed Strategy to Reduce Poverty

Posted by Byron Tarr

ECOWAS adopted its Vision 2020 in June, 2007, it is intended to replace an ECOWAS of States with an ECOWAS of Peoples. Or, as Sekou Toure might have put it, the Vision seeks to replace a “trade union of heads

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February 27, 2009

How Obama Could Uplift Africa

Posted by Byron Tarr

In 1958, eminent Africanist scholars including David Apter, Elliot Berg, Rupert Emerson, Ruth Schachter and Emmanuel Wallerstein, among others, wrote “A New American Policy Toward Africa”. The document became the blueprint of the Kennedy Administration’s policy for an Africa then

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