The key concern for me was whether and how it was possible to tell what is essentially someone else's story in a way that provides meaningful advocacy.
Atim Oton | Posted 01.24.2012
Africa is still a child and needs to grow up. But it's growth has to be on its own terms. It is time for Africa to re-evaluate its 400 years of colonialism and the last 50 years of aid. Each has changed the continent in some many ways.
Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW DELHI -- Ashis Nandy has a big idea about "loss and recovery" in the history of colonialism. The bumpersticker version is that the conquerors and...
Zachary Stockill | Posted 05.25.2011
The more of the world one experiences the more it is made abundantly clear that no matter where one travels, the human experience is one of remarkable uniformity.
Nina Sankovitch | Posted 05.25.2011
What moved me to tears in this second reading of Colin Channer's The Girl with the Golden Shoes was how the fate of Estrella mirrors the fate of Haiti.
Shahid Buttar | Posted 05.25.2011
But even though racial inequities persist, there is no doubt that the first black President will be a milestone, a watershed seemingly unthinkable before Obama's meteoric candidacy.
Hayden Bixby | Posted 05.12.2012