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Top 10 In Africa:

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Top 10 Richest Presidents in Africa 2020 Top 10 Most Educated African Presidents 2020 Top 10 Least Educated Presidents in Africa 2019 Top 10 Most Powerful Countries in Africa in 2020 10 Most Dangerous African Countries Top 10 Most Corrupt Countries in Africa 2020 10 Most Democratic African Countries TOP 10 MOST UNDEMOCRATIC COUNTRIES IN AFRICA … [Read more...] about Top 10 In Africa:

The quiet rise of spy states

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Murray Hunter | 5 Jun 2020 | Mail & Guardian Few pro-democracy activists in Southern Africa need to be told that their governments don’t respect the right to privacy. Although the spying powers of governments in the region are dwarfed by those in the United States or China, there is growing concern that African governments may be listening in on conversations and … [Read more...] about The quiet rise of spy states

America’s Original Sin

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Slavery and the Legacy of White Supremacy Annette Gordon-Reed |January/February 2018 | Foreign Affairs The documents most closely associated with the creation of the United States—the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution—present a problem with which Americans have been contending from the country’s beginning: how to reconcile the values espoused in those … [Read more...] about America’s Original Sin

Naked protest: how ordinary citizens reveal truth to repressive regimes

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Rebecca Tapscott |May 14, 2020 | The Conversation The past two decades have seen the rise of new forms of authoritarianism. These modern authoritarian regimes use diverse tactics to keep democratic institutions weak. For example, governments in Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and Uganda have formally decentralised power under the guise of democracy, … [Read more...] about Naked protest: how ordinary citizens reveal truth to repressive regimes

How Uganda is failing to help rural children learn languages

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Medadi Ssentanda and Allen Asiimwe |June 2, 2020 | The Conversation The government of Uganda introduced the mother tongue education programme with hope of improving literacy levels 12 years ago. But the training of teachers at colleges was not modified to match the introduced programme. In a recently published study we conducted in 2018 in three rural schools in … [Read more...] about How Uganda is failing to help rural children learn languages