We’re hearing the rumblings about jobs, tax cuts, abortion, immigration, and the like as the 2012 U.S. presidential elections enter full gear. We’re also hearing much talk about energy policy, defense, and such things, from President Barack Obama as well as from his Republican (GOP) challenger, former Governor Mitt Romney. As Democrats convene in Charlotte, North…
After it was announced that Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Meles Zenawi passed away Tuesday, August 21, news organizations around the world began to look at the legacy that Zenawi left behind for Ethiopia. Scanning through the websites for the BBC World Service, CNN, Bloomberg News and USA Today, for the most part, the analysis have…
News that Africa is booming is going mainstream. At least that is the point that is discerned when major U.S. print and broadcasting outlets such as the Washington Post, New York Times, The Atlantic, Christian Science Monitor and NPR pick up on news of transformation that is taking place in continental Africa. These organizations are devoting…
Discussion about a nation crippled by disease is not good news, but news reports about that nation overcoming the challenges posed by disease are welcome news. The news that the nation of Botswana is moving past the odds that were stacked against it just a decade ago is certainly encouraging to many around the world. National…
It has long been a point of contention within many African communities both at home and abroad that coverage of Africa by Western news media is largely biased, if not fractured. It’s a fractured view and image of an estimated one billion inhabitants of Africa, living in 54 nations; from the North, West, East, and…
If there is a nation that has greatly influenced almost every sector of society, then it is unmistakably the good ol’ U.S. of A – America. For the past three centuries, America has been a beacon of possibilities –even in the 1800s, immigrants from around the world were drawn in by Her allure of promise…
He is better known as the young and dynamic politician who was a member of the Colorado House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008 and also its speaker from 2005 to 2008. His name is Harlan Andrew Romanoff. He ran for the U.S Senate in 2010 but lost to Michael Bennett in the primaries. In…
Derrick Hudson is a professor at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado “I am essentially exploring, at the moment, how South Sudan and the Republic of Sudan are going to divide the debt that they accumulated when they were one entity.” Hudson said. The country would have qualified for debt relief under the Heavily…
Intended Audience: Students of African politics ***Open book study: 1 hour. Please see questions at end of the page. You are welcome to supplement your reading with material outside of the text book. What recently happened in Niger and what are the consequences: The reverberations of a “soft coup” which occurred in the uranium rich nation of…
Photo: Nobelpeaceprize.org Perceptions of the U.S; Nobel Peace Prize Award Any causes and effects? In Journalism, correlations and linkages between issues and outcomes are always a point of contention. This also applies to theories and concepts relating to mass communications and their related translation into issues and policy agendas. In the lead-up to the November 2008…