The Revolution That Matters to Africa

Africa is ripe for its own industrial revolution, but with 70 percent of Africans dependent on agriculture for their livelihoods, it must be a green one. We have been latecomers with the world's previous waves of industrialization; now we are catching up because necessity and the birth of new technologies are fostering a continent of innovators. The …

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Your Thoughts: What Does It Mean To Be A ‘Feminist’ In Your Country?

n Rwanda, some consider feminism a dirty word, says NPR's Gregory Warner in his Invisibilia podcast. It's shorthand for too aggressive, too liberated, too selfish. Yet women in Rwanda hold 64 percent of the seats in parliament — more than any other country. What he found is that even in a country that seemingly embraces gender equality, there …

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WSU vaccinates dogs to help eradicate rabies from Africa

Dr. Guy Palmer isn’t kidding when he says he got his start in veterinary medicine doing grunt work at a rabies research lab. The only way to diagnose the deadly virus is to examine an animal’s brain. So Palmer’s job in 1974 was to pick up shipments of dog, skunk and cow heads at the …

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Boris Johnson is perfectly in tune with Britain’s post-colonial lament

In the days since his appointment as the UK’s foreign minister, Boris Johnson’s offensive statements about Africans, Americans, Europeans, Papua New Guineans, Russians, Turks and pretty much everyone in the world outside Britain have received significant coverage. This comes as no surprise. Johnson has been a public figure for many years, and in that time he …

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Yemen’s only hope for lasting peace

Three rounds of peace talks have so far failed to bring an end to the devastating conflict in Yemen. While the violence continues, consuming the lives of innocent people with catastrophic humanitarian consequences, the UN Envoy is struggling to revive the talks after a two-week pause. Throughout all of this, there is a missing force …

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