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Stephen Smith is teaching African Studies, Cultural Anthropology and Public Policy at Duke University, NC. He is the former Africa editor, and Deputy Foreign editor, of Le Monde and had previously worked on the continent for Reuter’s, Radio France International and Libération. His latest book on France’s Africa policy, Sarko en Afrique, co-authored with Antoine Glaser, was released in Paris in October 2008. Other publications include biographies of Winnie Mandela (2007), Emperor Bokassa (2000) and General Oufkir (1998), books on Ivory Coast, Somalia, DRC and Burundi as well as reports on Nigeria (2006) and the Central African Republic (2007, 2008) by the International Crisis Group (ICG). Born in the United States, Stephen Smith studied African law and anthropology at the Sorbonne, in Paris, and philosophy, history and political science at the Free University of Berlin, where he submitted his dissertation on Semiotics of Foreign News Coverage.
In November 2006, Jendayi Frazer, then Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, prided herself of “no longer traveling to Africa via Europe”, adding: “We don’t need that any more. We deal with the continent directly, our own way”. She made the statement in San Francisco when addressing the annual meeting of the African Studies [...]
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