Topic: Biafra
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There Was a Country
Chinua Achebe offers a moving personal history of the short-lived African nation of Biafra.
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Famed author Chinua Achebe on the Occupy Nigeria strikes
In an interview with The Christian Science Monitor, Nigerian author Chinua Achebe supports fuel-subsidy protests and says that Nigeria's unrest can be eased by better, less-corrupt leaders.
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Editor's Blog As world population heads toward a peak, Malthusian worries reemerge
By 2050, the planet will add the equivalent of a new China and India in population. Africa is increasingly seen as the new global breadbasket in the quest to feed all those people.
02/07/2011 09:12 am -
Africa Monitor Nigerian leadership problems can be traced to society's inequality
Nigerian leadership has a record of failure and the roots can be traced to Nigerian society, where echoes of slavery linger, guest blogger Jeremy Weate argues.
10/05/2010 12:54 pm -
Half of a Yellow Sun
07/11/2009 01:00 am -
Opinion Genocide prevention: 60 years of abject failure
Darfur reinforces the impotence of this UN mandate.
01/30/2008 12:00 am
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