BY LINDSAY IRVINE When Yetounde was but seven days old, Mandibou villagers sacrificed her to the fears and superstitions of the past; after only seven days of life, she became a victim of ritualized female circumcision. Had it not been for the intervention of a French missionary, Father Benoit, the dangerous procedure would have claimed [...]
BY CATHERINE DURNELL CRAMPTON Recent advances in telecommunication and information technologies have made it feasible for people to work together daily on highly interdependent projects despite being located in different countries. Competitive pressures in a global economy have made such work arrangements not only possible, but often necessary. Using internationally distributed work teams allows businesses [...]
BY HAZEL M. MCFERSON The history of interaction in the United States between Asians and African-Americans is far more nuanced than either the view that most interaction has been positive, or the more common, opposing view that what interaction has taken place has been uniformly negative. Certainly, in contemporary times there is a widespread impression, [...]
BY MARCEL KITISSOU China has forged extensive political, economic and military ties with most of the fifty-four African countries, in part to secure a stable oil supply. However, the implications of “petro politics” for the stability of the African countries concerned may not always be positive. China’s trade with the continent has tripled since 2000, [...]
BY BENEDICT CARTON In the twilight of apartheid, militant Zulu nationalism threatened a momentous democratic transition in South Africa. Weeks before the milestone April 1994 election, Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini, backed by M.G. Buthelezi’s Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), urged the “warrior Zulu nation” to go it alone and follow the inspiration of Shaka Zulu, a [...]
BY JAMES P. PFIFFNER President George W. Bush proclaimed the official position of the United States on torture on June 26, 2003, the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. “Freedom from torture is an inalienable human right,” he said. “The United States is committed to the worldwide elimination of torture, and [...]
BY CHRIS COYNE Among many other problems, the current U.S. occupation of Iraq suffers from a problem of incentive misalignment. From the beginning of the occupation, the United States made very clear its firm commitment to stay the course. This provided a disincentive to members of the Iraqi populace as well as to Iraq’s neighbors [...]
BY DAVID DAVIS The coalition intervention in Iraq of the spring of 2003 was carried out to depose a cruel and heinous dictator, Saddam Hussein. There has been much press and conjecture about other reasons for the intervention. What is little debated however, is that the Iraq that the coalition found was in great need. [...]