• Tom Devriendt

The media in the Netherlands have a schizophrenic relationship with South Africa, either fixating on Afrikaners, descendants of Dutch settlers, or fabricating a history of Dutch anti-apartheid zeal.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

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• Dan Moshenberg

Sierra Leone is a tough place for women and girls, maybe among the worst. But that doesn't mean they’re waiting for Nicholas Kristof to save them.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Mikko Kapanen

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• Dan Moshenberg

Gbowee, an activist, is one of three Liberian women to jointly be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011. Most Western media, though, didn't do right by her.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Sean Henry Jacobs

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• Sean Henry Jacobs

Equatorial Guinea's longtime head of state, Teodoro Obiang, wants to buy legitimacy internationally. Will he succeed?

• Dan Moshenberg

Maathai, who died this week, stood up to the dictatorship of Daniel Arap Moi, and the global regimes of the IMF, the World Bank and all the rest.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

• Dan Moshenberg

In The New York Times columnit's world, Kenya is just another Third World site of pathos, despair, degradation, and fallen women waiting to be saved.

• Sean Henry Jacobs