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Zimbabwe is not about Mugabe

That the western press is unanimous in it’s explanation of the crash and burn which is 2000’s Zimbabwe should give you pause. Mahmood Mamdani, Africanist and Anthropologist at Columbia, and author of 1996’s Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the…

Abkhazia Reconsidered

Neal Ascherson (of whom I’m unexplainably always somewhat wary) has a thoughtful — and thought provoking for those of us trapped in the US rah-rah news bubble — essay on Abkhazia in the London Review of Books. In the capitol…